Introduction Nowadays, it is hard to imagine human life without the Internet. It has become not only an essential part of everyday life but also a way of living and thinking. The dependence on the Internet and the intention to stay online as much time as possible is the issue that is discussed from several perspectives. The existing computer’s holding power is one of the most challenging phenomena that could be even compared to drug addiction 1 . Various telecommunication companies and Internet providers usually perform the role of drug dealers. Still, similar to drug dealers, telecommunication companies and other providers could not promote safety for all their customers and the users of their services. In this paper, the question of cybersecurity and the current ethical, strategic, and legal aspects will be discussed based on the case study about Deutsche Telekom and its September 2012 DDoS attacks. Modern hackers and online terrorists can use different methods and techniques to infect web pages and make sure such infections get personal computers or organizational computer systems and destroy the material or make it available to other people. Cybersecurity is the way of how to protect people against hacking some important, personal data, privacy abuses, constant network outages, and viruses and threats that could affect human lives 2 . The example of Deutsche Telekom proves the importance of the development of cybersecurity programs and strategies to protect users and their interests. This paper helps to understand the essentials of cybersecurity and its abilities to provide people with safe conditions for using Internet sources and the information on how to deal with online threats and inconveniences. Cyberspace as the Place for Living During the last several decades, people made numerous attempts to improve social, economic, and entertainment spheres with the help of the Internet. Cyberspace turned out to be the place where people could create new industries, promote communication, and introduce new ways of information exchange 3 . People got numerous opportunities to change and challenge their lives, use various methods to find, store, and share the information, and develop their skills in different directions. On the one hand, cyberspace has to be considered as an amazing opportunity to increase awareness and destroy the boundaries of people’s possibilities. On the other hand, cyberspace is as vulnerable as any system people could use in their work due to some intentional or unintentional omissions or mistakes 4 . In other words, the bigger the system used by people is, the bigger and more serious problems and risks could occur. At the same time, cyber risks could also be intentional and unintentional. There are designers, who could make some mistakes that lead to problems like the loss of information or making the information available to all people. There are also such people as hackers or system attackers, whose goals are to steal the information that remains to be confidential, to make some illegal financial transactions possible, or to change the facts to help a certain group of people to benefit. Cyberspace is just another place for living where laws, crimes, and punishment cannot be neglected. People, who decide to share their information online, to store some data withi