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Uhh, I think "attack" is the only term. If you installed such software in US power plants it would almost certainly be described as "hacking," "a [cyber] attack
by alexandercrohde 7y ago
Uhh, I think "attack" is the only term. If you installed such software in US power plants it would almost certainly be described as "hacking," "a [cyber] attack", and likely if multiple targets "terrorism."
Regardless of your opinion US/Russia, we should all hold that words need objective meanings that can't be "bent" for convenience.
- freehunter 7y agoYeah this is pretty basic information security terminology. An "attack" is any attempted intrusion, successful or not, damaging or not. If the threat actor managed to breach your defenses and gain unauthorized access, that's called an attack. For some definitions: https://www.beyondtrust.com/blog/entry/difference-between-a-threat-actor-hacker-attacker https://www.beyondtrust.com/blog/entry/difference-between-a-...
- meowface 7y agoI think it's an attack in the network/technical sense but not the strategic sense. There's a bit of a conflation of terms here because there are at least two layers to any operation like this; the system intrusion itself, and using the access to achieve some kind of real world objective. Militarily or strategically, this would just be something like reconnaissance and preparation, I think (I know almost nothing about militaries though). So it's a system attack but not an "attack-attack".