Attacking the issue

virus', 'exploit', 'rootkit attack', 'botnet', 'phishing', 'distributed denial-of-service' and 'zero-days'.We are sometimes told that these amount to the use of 'cyber weapons' and that 'cyber war' is already being waged about us, 1 but that we have not yet experienced the cyber equivalent of Pearl Harbor or 9/11.A debate continues to rage as to whether such analogies are either realistic or helpful. 2