Bryan Fleming, the founder of hacked stalkerware company pcTattletale, pleaded guilty to federal charges linked to the ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

PHILADELPHIA -- Apple has updated its software for iPhones to address a critical vulnerability that independent researchers say has been exploited by notorious surveillance software to spy on a Saudi ...

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 ...

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 ...