The internet has been dangerous since the Morris worm was released 32 years ago. However, it's gotten to be much more dangerous in the last couple years, and authorities have responded in exactly the way that you would expect.

Normally the U.S. government is quiet about it's offensive cyberwar strikes, but that changed in the past few weeks.
First there was the alarming NY Times article.

If you want to know the true state of the internet, don't listen to politicians and pundits. Ask the computer security professionals.

Russian hackers are the greatest threat to our once great democracy. Or so we've been told. It's the primary reason behind the economic sanctions, our foreign policy, and Democratic konspiracy theories.
Since it is supposedly this important, and this hard to defend against, a collective, international effort is called for.

So a brand new ScaryRussia! came out today.
This time they hacked our power grid.

Washington struck back against Russia twice today for things that either aren't crimes, or are things we are responsible for.
Let's start with the biggest one.

Any football fan can tell you that offense makes the highlight reel, but defense wins championships.

As usual, the most interesting news gets published on the weekend.
In this case it concerned North Korea.

So the U.S. government is officially accusing Russia, and President Putin, of interfering in the U.S. presidential election.