Researchers from U.K., Germany, Netherlands and U.S. analyzed costs of cybercrime at request of Ministry of Defence. Defense costs stem from antivirus and firewall programs, offering fraud prevention services to consumers, implementing fraud detection systems and performing law enforcement investigations. Current methods of dealing with cybercrime are inefficient, says University of Cambridge security engineering professor Ross Anderson. Western governments can also fight cybercrime by pressuring credit card companies like Visa and MasterCard into stopping payments for cybercriminals, he says.”]