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Technical risks are related to potential malicious intrusions likely to damage digital equipment in one way or another (computer, tablet, smartphone, USB key, CD-ROM, etc.) and spread to other equipment. The motives behind these attacks can vary: to destroy documents to harm an individual or a group of individuals (economic, military or governmental organization, etc.); to infiltrate an information system to steal information with the idea of denouncing or conducting industrial espionage, for example; or simply with the idea of taking up a challenge. We use the term hackers to designate those individuals who illegally act on other computer systems. These acts fall under cybercrime and are punishable by law.