Greek Word 07/2022

κυβερνοεπίθεση – cyberattack

The Greek Postal System, ELTA (ΕΛΤΑ), has been hacked. This has resulted in a temporary shutdown of all the computer systems in every post office branch in the country. The story is here: https://www.protothema.gr/greece/article/1224191/kuvernoepithesi-sta-pliroforiaka-sustimata-ton-elta/ And in English: https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1180274/greek-postal-service-reports-cyber-attack/

Here are some other ‘cyber-‘ words. Although the English word ‘cybernetics’ is a borrowing from Greek, all the words here were coined first in English and translated back to Greek!

κυβερνοασφάλεια – cybersecurity

κυβερνοναύτης – internet surfer, cybernaut

κυβερνοπειρατής – internet pirate

κυβερνοπόλεμος – cyberwar

κυβερνοχώρος – cyberspace

κυβερνοπάνκ – cyberpunk (not, as I thought, a hacker but a genre of science fiction set in a lawless subculture of an oppressive society dominated by computer technology).