Google has been notifying Gmail users that their e-mail accounts were under siege by “state-sponsored attackers” The New York Times reported that tens of thousands of Google users began receiving notices that their Google and Gmail accounts were “at risk of state-sponsored attacks” The security industry’s penchant for speaking euphemistically about cyber threats has grown in proportion to the threats themselves, says Bill Brenner. In short: APT means everything and nothing. It’s the perfect cyber foil: scary sounding but vague.”]

