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A cyberattack is when someone uses computers and the internet to break into, steal, lock, or wreck information that is not theirs. The hit is code, not a fist: copying files, shutting a hospital’s screens, or freezing a company’s work until money is paid.
A cyberattack is when someone uses computers and the internetcyberattack是指有人用電腦和網路，to break into, steal, lock, or wreck去侵入、偷走、鎖住，或破壞，information that is not theirs不屬於他們的資訊。The hit is code, not a fist出手的是程式碼，不是拳頭，copying files, shutting a hospital's screens, or freezing a company's work until money is paid複製檔案、關掉醫院的螢幕，或是把公司的工作鎖住直到付了錢才解開。
It can be one person or a group, and the target can be a school laptop or a whole country’s systems. News and IT people use this word a lot; in ordinary talk someone may just say “we got hacked.” It is usually a noun (a cyberattack).
It can be one person or a group動手的可以是一個人，也可以是一群人，and the target can be a school laptop or a whole country's systems目標可以是一台學校的筆電，也可以是整個國家的系統。News and IT people use this word a lot新聞和資訊人員很常用這個字，in ordinary talk someone may just say "we got hacked."日常說話可能就只說「we got hacked（我們被駭了）」，It is usually a noun (a cyberattack)它通常是名詞（a cyberattack）。
Some speakers also use it as a verb (to cyberattack a system), though that sounds a little heavier and more headline-like. Formal in reports; common in headlines.
Some speakers also use it as a verb (to cyberattack a system)有些人也把它當動詞用（to cyberattack a system），though that sounds a little heavier and more headline-like不過那樣聽起來比較重、比較像新聞標題。Formal in reports在報告裡是正式用語，common in headlines在標題裡很常見。
Though actually, not every nasty thing online is a cyberattack — a rude message is not the same as breaking a system.
Though actually不過其實，not every nasty thing online is a cyberattack不是每個網路上的壞事都是cyberattack，a rude message is not the same as breaking a system一則沒禮貌的訊息跟破壞一個系統不是一回事。
組成From cyber- + attack. cyber- comes from cybernetic, from Ancient Greek kubernētikós (about steering / control); in English cyber- now just means “on computers or the internet.” attack is the strike.
同家族的字
- cyberneticthe older word that cyber- was cut from
- attackthe second half — the strike itself
- cybercrimesame cyber- prefix; crime is the broader illegal world these attacks often belong to
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
cyberattacknoun/ˈsaɪ.bə.ɹəˌtæk/
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An attack or intrusion by means of a computer network such as the Internet, often for the purpose of spying.
- He also points out that if the US does come under cyberattack, we may be powerless to stop the attack.
- In the months before Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel's arrival in Beijing on Monday, the Obama administration quietly held an extraordinary briefing for the Chinese military leadership on a subject officials have rarely discussed in public: The Pentagon's emerging doctrine for defending against cyberattacks against the United States – and for using its cybertechnology against adversaries, including the Chinese.
cyberattackverb/ˈsaɪ.bə.ɹəˌtæk/
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To launch a cyberattack.
- A study by security company Riptech found that in the six months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, energy companies were cyberattacked at twice the rate of other industries surveyed.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。