Oops, another perfectly good disaster scenario down the drain. Unless something like the metavirus from the novel Snow Crash appears, capable of infecting both humans and computers, I think we’re fairly safe on that front.
At this rate, right-leaning politicians and other fear-mongers must be seeing a new disaster on the horizon: running out of disasters. 🙂
(Here’s some further information, including warnings about politicians and others hyping cyber-threats for their own purposes.)