The Guardian reports on what some are suggesting may the first outbreak of official cyberwar between one country and another, after Russian hackers, official or not, have flooded Estonian websites with Denial of Service attacks (DDoS):
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Social Technology: The Future of Information. By Thomson Reuters journalist Jeremy Wagstaff
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I wish everyone including the Grauniad would stop using that tired “cyber” cliché… it was hackneyed in the early nineties already.
True, Juha, but it’s an accepted term in this case: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberwar