The spyware industry’s worst kept secret has finally been spoken aloud in a federal courtroom: the boss behind pcTattletale ...

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 ...

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 ...

Organizations and law enforcement agencies fighting spyware are making progress, but new tools in an antispyware bill stalled in the U.S. Congress could improve the efforts, a member of the U.S.

At least 50 US government officials are suspected or confirmed to have been targeted by invasive commercial spyware designed to hack mobile phones, a senior US administration official told reporters ...

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Tired of spyware, adware and other slimeware that sneaks onto your computer, snoops while you surf the Web, steals personal information, hijacks your Web browser and slows your PC to a crawl? You ...

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 ...

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 ...

Organizations and law enforcement agencies fighting spyware are making progress, but new tools in an antispyware bill stalled in Congress could improve the efforts, a member of the Federal Trade ...