Spyware rarely announces itself with pop-ups or flashing warnings. It slips into everyday routines, quietly tracking what you ...

Your smartphone holds your entire life, making it a prime target for hackers and spies. Here's how to protect it.

Antivirus software offers digital protection and defends against malware. But it can't shield you from everything.

Microsoft Corp. announced yesterday that it is giving away software designed to help protect Windows users from spyware, one of the fastest-growing of Internet annoyances. The release marked a new ...

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 ...

Web surfers battling "spyware" face a new problem: so-called spyware-killing programs that install the same kind of unwanted advertising software they promise to erase. Web surfers battling "spyware" ...

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 ...

Have you ever wondered if someone is secretly watching your every keystroke on your computer? I know, it’s creepy to even think about. Yet this is a reality because of a type of sneaky spyware called ...

Spyware is fast becoming the next generation of spam. It is software that installs onto a computer or local network, monitors computing habits and delivers the information to third parties. Usually, ...

Chinese hackers turned 4.3 million trusted browser extensions into spyware, capturing every click and search through routine ...

The crusade against spyware is muddied by the fact that, unlike the case of computer viruses, there is no precise definition of the term. One person might regard a given program as spyware, while ...

Researchers at Citizen Lab found that NSO Group, an Israeli spyware company, had infected Apple products without so much as a click. By Nicole Perlroth Apple issued emergency software updates for a ...