Taken together, such attacks are, if not actual acts of cyberwarfare, certainly precursors to it.
National security experts used to dealing with high-explosives and body counts find cyberwarfare a baffling new theatre of operations.
Anderson spoke about the Space Command's cyberwarfare responsibilities at the National Strategies and Capabilities for a Changing World conference.
Other military services also are taking steps to strengthen cyberwarfare capabilities and training.
Perhaps we do need more warships, or perhaps we might get more bang for the buck from investing in smart weapons and cyberwarfare.
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Congressional leaders on intelligence issues met Thursday with Director of National Intelligence James Clapper on the apparent leaks of classified information about cyberwarfare.
We mostly know that modern cyberwarfare had its fair share of growing pains -- and that it's not as fresh-faced as we assumed.
Specifically, the FBI has launched an investigation into apparent leaks of classified information involving the cyberwarfare program against Iran, a U.S. official said this week.
Lockheed has recently won several major cyberwarfare awards at the expense of competitors, and seems to be a preferred destination for many specialists in the field.
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The cyberwarfare market grew so fast that it outstripped available labor pools, so companies now find themselves bidding against each other and the federal customer for scarce skills.
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Dr Rid, who has hit back at warnings from military experts about the risk of cyberwarfare in the past, said it was important to distinguish between sabotage and espionage.
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That means even if government spending on cyberwarfare keeps growing, some players straining to get into the business are not going to be happy with how this new opportunity works out.
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We know of the compromise of techniques used to defend our country through cyberwarfare, drone attacks, covert operations and what turned out to be other nations' successful penetration of terrorist cells.
Remember, though, that cyberwarfare is ultimately a human endeavor.
As federal spending on national security has leveled off in recent years, big defense contractors have worked hard to secure a role in one of the few market segments expected to keep growing: cyberwarfare.
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The thinking was that cyber threats would keep proliferating for the foreseeable future, and defense companies were more likely to have the necessary clearances and market knowledge to compete in cyberwarfare than outsiders like Google or Microsoft.
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Seeing few other domestic opportunities on which to place bets with the cash they had accumulated during flush years, military contractors poured into the cyberwarfare field, building operations centers, purchasing niche players, and competing aggressively for contracts.
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Instead of being a targeted cyberwarfare attack, this malware is simply a run-of-the-mill trojan virus that travels by "sneakernet, " the tongue-in-cheek name for the transmission of viruses across unconnected computers by hand (or foot) in the days before widespread Internet connectivity.
Clark pointed out in 1999, cyberwarfare may one day give us a more humane way to fight wars (why, for example, bomb a train depot if you can just temporarily disable its computer networks?), so we shouldn't reject it out of hand.
But just as it is wrong to conclude that the amateurization of media will bring on a renaissance of high-quality journalism, so it is wrong to conclude that the amateurization of cyberattacks will usher in a brave new world of destructive cyberwarfare.
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