What Does Cyber Pearl Harbor Mean?
Cyber Pearl Harbor refers to a potential cyber attack that some people believe threatens U.S.-based IT infrastructure and related services. The term was coined in 2012 by U.S. Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and aims to relate the intensity and potential devastation of a major cyber attack with the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, a surprise military attack by the Japanese Navy against the U.S.Cyber Pearl Harbor is a term that implies that the U.S. faces an attack and, perhaps, cyberwarfare with an aggressive nation or terrorist organization.