Security Strategies Alert By M. E. Kabay , Network World: Seeing how messages from Iran are getting out with the government watching
With some justification, skeptics have questioned whether cyberwar is a realistic scenario for concern or merely a scary story to earn funding for security companies and writers. Unfortunately, there are many cases in which journalists and others have leaped to the conclusion that security breaches are examples of cyberwar; recent examples include the Estonian “cyberwar” of 2007 and the attacks on the Church of Scientology in early 2009.