The Cyberwar Will Not Be Streamed
Summary: Krebs on Security recounts that in early 2000 a Canadian high school student known as Mafiaboy was arrested after bragging about DDoS attacks that took down major e-commerce sites, and that such attacks later shifted toward organized criminal gangs using them for extortion. The post argues that news media are conflating Anonymous's DDoS attacks on Amazon.com, EveryDNS.com, Mastercard.com, Paypal.com and Visa.com with the term "cyberwar," a phrase Krebs calls vogue but still squishy.
Why it matters: The article's core point is that the word "cyberwar" has very different meanings in the military, intelligence and commercial worlds, and the public is left confused when media throw it around without definition - so a security leader's own vocabulary and incident reporting may be carrying the same ambiguity.
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