Microsoft Corp.’s announcement last week that it has purchased a small vendor of antispyware tools serves to highlight the growing seriousness of the spyware problem for users, according to security ...

Spyware rarely announces itself with pop-ups or flashing warnings. It slips into everyday routines, quietly tracking what you type, where you click, and which accounts you open, often for months ...

I still remember when my dad got his first smartphone. After a whole day of figuring out how it worked, he exclaimed, "Well, there's an app for everything, it seems." Indeed, apps make our daily lives ...

Microsoft Thursday released a free trial copy of anti-spyware software it purchased last month, marking the company’s entry into the fast-growing market for products that block surreptitious snooping ...

Choices in desktop anti-spyware protection this week are widening with Aluria Software moving from the consumer market into the corporate realm and Trend Micro announcing its product entry. Aluria ...

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Apple offers two options that are triggered by iPhone hardware and are not fully in software. Either “press and hold either ...

On top of collecting operators' profits and money for consumer redress, commission would like ability to impose civil fines on companies issuing spyware Organizations and law enforcement agencies ...

The United States announced new sanctions Monday against a commercial spyware company headed by a former Israeli military officer whose program allowed easy access to almost any information stored on ...

Bryan Fleming, the founder of hacked stalkerware company pcTattletale, pleaded guilty to federal charges linked to the running of his now-defunct Michigan-based spyware company.

Tools designed to fight off a spyware “epidemic” are expected to get close scrutiny from corporate users at next week’s RSA Conference in San Francisco. Spyware, which was a low-priority item on many ...