A 15-year-old boy has been arrested in Northern Ireland in connection with the cyber-attack on TalkTalk's website.
Yes, the pay committee used its discretion to cut the bonus from £343,000 "in the context of the cyber-attack on TalkTalk", which infuriated customers whose personal data was snatched.
The information commissioner, Elizabeth Denham, said: "TalkTalk's failure to implement the most basic cyber security measures allowed hackers to penetrate TalkTalk's systems with ease.
"I would have thought – almost whatever you think of him – it's impossible to talk about cyber security without mentioning Edward Snowden," he said.
General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, welcomed his PLA counterpart to the Pentagon last week, but both officers avoided talk about cyber espionage in a Thursday press conference.
This official, like many I spoke to, portrayed the talk about cyber war as a bureaucratic effort "to raise the alarm" and garner support for an increased Defense Department role in the protection of private infrastructure.
This is why it is so important that the United States and China continue to talk about cyber and to develop points of contact and other communication mechanisms in case of crisis.
He criticises the American air force for using a "lobbying gimmick" with talk of "cyber" as a fifth domain of warfare, after land, sea, air and space.However much the military brass may hype up the threat, states are in fact highly unlikely to use cyber-weapons against each other, Mr Rid argues.
In a cyber version of sports talk radio, they can pour their overwrought interest in high school and recreation-league sports into Web postings and engage in angry back-and-forths that are beyond the bounds of public tolerance in most communities.
