Fighting Back: Corporate Cyber Offense Strategies Against Hackers

Companies are taking the law into their own hands to beat hackers who cost them millions of pounds each year. They are going on the offensive and adopting hacking tools and techniques themselves, according to a former director of information warfare . . . Companies are taking the law into their own hands to beat hackers who cost them millions of pounds each year. They are going on the offensive and adopting hacking tools and techniques themselves, according to a former director of information warfare for the US Department of Defense.

Bob Ayers, director of UK security consultancy Para-Protect, says companies are frustrated by limitations in law enforcement methods, and some are now fighting back.

A popular tactic is hiring experts to trace the source of a hack and find weaknesses in a culprit's system. One website was offering the facility to overload a hacker's own computer with spam email, said Ayers.

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