"In 2010, hackers penetrated the defenses of Google...The hacks allowed the attackers to make off with valuable Google intellectual property and information about dissidents who used the company's services. It also helped coin the term "advanced persistent threat," or APT,"
Sorry Ars but the term "Advanced Persistent Threat" was not coined in 2010. Businessweek was using the term in 2008[1] and that was hardly the first time it appears in the literature.
It appears the term possibly came about after the DoD was attacked by malware in early 2008. This magazine, from literally a day before that Businessweek article, refers to the DoD as the source: http://books.google.com/books?id=bmAEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA13&#...
Sorry Ars but the term "Advanced Persistent Threat" was not coined in 2010. Businessweek was using the term in 2008[1] and that was hardly the first time it appears in the literature.
[1] http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2008-04-09/an-evolving-c...