https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from France in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday promised a €1bn package to strengthen France's cyber defence, following several attacks on hospitals. https://www.thelocal.fr/20210219/macron-announces-1bn-security-package-after-cyberattacks-on-french-hospitals Fri, 19 Feb 2021 12:35:31 +0100 macron-announces-1bn-security-package-after-cyberattacks-on-french-hospitals UPDATED: The French government has denounced a cyber attack on the TV channel TV5Monde on Wednesday evening as a “terrorist act”, as the minister of culture vowed to bring the media together for an urgent meeting to prevent further attacks. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150409/frances-tv5-monde-isis-cyberattack-charlie-hebdo Thu, 09 Apr 2015 12:19:40 +0200 frances-tv5-monde-isis-cyberattack-charlie-hebdo Several of France's biggest online news sites on Friday temporarily went offline, hot on the heels of a spate of Islamist cyber attacks on almost 20,000 other French websites. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150116/several-french-news-sites-out-of-service Fri, 16 Jan 2015 12:34:00 +0100 several-french-news-sites-out-of-service French mobile phone giant Orange revealed this week that it had been hit by a massive new theft of personal data, that has affected 1.3 million customers. It comes just three months after info on 800,000 Orange subscribers was stolen. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140507/orange-hit-by-massive-new-client-data-theft Wed, 07 May 2014 12:53:00 +0200 orange-hit-by-massive-new-client-data-theft A French Web agency has risked the wrath of activists by registering the logo and motto of the Anonymous group of hackers. https://www.thelocal.fr/20120731/daring-french-firm-registers-anonymous-logo Tue, 31 Jul 2012 13:24:00 +0200 daring-french-firm-registers-anonymous-logo