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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Apple is once again racing to contain a stealthy surveillance threat, pushing out an emergency software update after ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chancellery reforms BND law: more powers, including entering apartments to install spy software.

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 ...