Cyber-crime has come a long way since the early days of the internet. Once 'hacking' was simply a way for computer experts to impress each other by getting through each others firewalls, but today it's a multi billion dollar business, enabling criminals to steal and blackmail.
What is even more worrying is that one in five people will be victims of a cyber-attack, and that they are currently occurring at a rate of one every quarter of a second.
It is because of this that Rowan Trollope, senior vice-president for consumer products at Symantec, the largest maker of anti-virus software, thinks it is time for online security experts to review their defences. Instead of simply erecting firewalls around computer systems and defending against multiple intrusions, he believes it's time to go on the offensive.
"It's time to stop building burglar alarms to keep people out and go after the bad guys," he said, speaking to Business Week.
How? By recruiting victims of cyber-attacks and former hackers.
Symantec have just released their new Norton Internet Security program, but this time the program enables the company to collect data about attempted computer intrusions and then forward the information to authorities.
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