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The internet is a "digital Wild West", filled with cybercriminals, cyberterrorists and cyberwarriors, an expert has asserted.
Security expert Dr Julie Mehan, author of the book Cyberwar, Cyberterror, Cybercrime, has warned that there are limited ways of controlling and policing the web, leading to a number of criminals exploiting it to make money and cause havoc.
"While the internet has emerged in the past two decades as a powerful business tool and enabler, the online world remains a largely unstructured terrain with few legal limitations and rules," she added.
Recently, there have been two high profile cases of malicious programmers being caught and sentenced for their crimes.
In New Zealand, the teenager Owen Thor Walker pleaded guilty to six charges of illegally using computers, following allegations by the Federal Bureau of Investigation that he had compromised more than one million machines.
More recently in the US, a 26-year-old man has admitted infecting hundreds of thousands of PCs with spyware in order to obtain money.
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