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