Most CISOs are familiar with the 10 most common cyber-attacks including: Malware, Birthday, Eavesdropping, Cross-site scripting (XSS), SQL injection, Password, Drive-by, Phishing/Spear Phishing, Man-in-the-middle and Denial-of-Service/Distributed Denial-of-Service. The recent headlines reporting on the last in this list warrants further exploration of the subject.