The Intellexa spy software consortium built and commercialized “highly invasive spyware products,” the Treasury Department ...

Like viruses and other harmful programs, spyware is a huge security problem. Worse than a typical virus, a spyware program can send corporate data directly from your company’s client computers to an ...

Does your antispyware software really work? With security experts warning of “rogue” antispyware products that sometimes do more harm than good, two security researchers have decided to take matters ...

Like the most dangerous and devious phishing attacks, this one is based on a Web site. Users enticed here face a fake portrayal of Microsoft's Windows Security Center. The bogus site displays such ...

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 ...

Google Threat Analysis Group’s Spyware Research: How CSVs Target Devices and Applications Your email has been sent Read more about the commercial surveillance vendors threat and its ecosystem and ...

The recent WannaCry ransomware attack infected about 300,000 computers in 150 countries, and cost computer users thousands of dollars in ransom money and billions in lost productivity. Italian ...

Researchers at the Citizen Lab from the University of Toronto’s Munk School have published a new report explaining how a zero-click exploit of iPhone software was possible and who was targeted. We ...

Bree Fowler writes about cybersecurity and digital privacy. Before joining CNET she reported for The Associated Press and Consumer Reports. A Michigan native, she's a long-suffering Detroit sports fan ...

Microsoft has purchased Giant Company Software, a small anti-spyware software company it hopes will shore up its security defenses. Microsoft declined to say how much it paid for the 10-person company ...

Recent iPhone patches such as iOS 17.0.2 fix holes used to plant spyware. Spyware attacks are on the rise, with Apple fixing a number of iPhone flaws used to implant the stealthy malware onto its ...

Like viruses and other harmful programs, spyware is a huge security problem. Worse than a typical virus, a spyware program can send corporate data directly from your company’s client computers to an ...