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

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 ...

Spyware is a slim threat for most people, but there are exceptions, such as journalists and activists in authoritarian regimes. You can usually avoid infection by following standard cybersecurity ...

WASHINGTON -- Microsoft Corp., whose popular Windows software is a frequent target for Internet viruses, is offering a free security program to remove the most dangerous infections from computers. The ...

WASHINGTON - Microsoft disclosed plans Thursday to offer frustrated users of its Windows software new tools within 30 days to remove spyware programs secretly running on computers. But it might cost ...

Efforts by the US and other governments to curb the development, use, and proliferation of powerful spyware tools like NSO Group's Pegasus and Intellexa Consortium's Predator have largely been ...

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 ...

The United States announced new sanctions Monday against a commercial spyware company headed by a former Israeli military officer whose program allowed easy access to almost any information stored on ...

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 ...

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 ...