Cyber crime is on the rise. From malware to botnets and child exploitation to spam and more. All this results in a $500 billion dollar lost from the global economy.

Microsoft aims to fight cybercrime, and they've created a high-tech, futuristic "Cybercrime Center," specifically designed to protect its users from having precious data and passwords stolen.

The center is located in Redmond, and it provides a base for the Digital Crimes Unit and is equipped with high-tech hardware and software like SitePrint and PhotoDNA designed to neutralize an attack.



The Cybercrime Center contains long hallways equipped with video screens that display case studies, statistics and news clips as you stroll by. It almost looks like a scene from a sci-fi movie.

The employees themselves are hand-picked and come from a medley of different backgrounds, like federal prosecutors, technical analysts, engineers and physicists.



Microsoft hopes to be one or two steps ahead of cyber criminals. Somebody needs to police these things after all.

Microsoft, via The Next Web