Russia accused of net hack attacks

The way the article is written makes this a nothing burger. It's well known Russia routinely uses cyber to gain information or conducts various attacks, so that is nothing new. It's also well known the Chinese do too. The article could've mentioned if these were zero-day attacks, any signatures that were traceable, did they spot it before, during, or afterwards? No one wants to ID how they found things being it would tip hands as to methods used, but to write a vague article like this makes no sense at all. "It's not known if the US/UK are responding in kind"? Really? We're fully capable of equitable or superior cyber retribution.

Must've been a very slow day at BBC News. They're normally one of the better news outlets.

I think cyber-threat has finally transitioned from hyped-up overstatement of the danger to full-blown blazing inferno of "we better get our act together (in the private sector as well as the government world))." I'm not a cybersecurity expert and don'd really have any specific interest in that domain of IT, but if you set your newsfeed to give you articles on cyber security issues you'll get scared of something about once a day or so.

No, this probably started well before the strikes in Syria, we are just now catching on to it. It'll be hard to block them out though, the internet is almost completely free and really the only way to stop them is to find the person/people doing it and physically stop them. The other alternative is to heighten our cyber security, which we should be doing anyways.