Instead smaller teams of hackers, like LulzSec, are focused on breaking into the servers of their targets to steal sensitive data, a more potent kind of information warfare.
Both the government and the European Commission have acknowledged the risks of depending on increased tax revenue, which is more growth sensitive, to meet fiscal targets and contingency spending cuts amounting to 0.5 per cent of national output have prepared in case of another tax shortfall.
The report noted that foreign collectors of sensitive economic information are able to operate in cyberspace with relatively little risk of detection by their private sector targets.