In plain terms
This article by James E. McGhee examines the imprecise vocabulary used to describe cyber incidents, arguing that events are routinely labeled "hacks" or "attacks" without any consistent standard for why they qualify as such. Drawing on examples including NATO's published timeline of cyber incidents and a 2013 defacement of the Marine Corps recruiting website attributed to the Syrian Electronic Army, McGhee contends that this terminological looseness has real consequences for how cyber law and policy respond to such events. The article situates this imprecision as a central obstacle to developing a workable legal framework for classifying and responding to cyber incidents.