There's no standard definition of spyware, so what one company considers a malicious intrusion upon your system might go unnoticed by another vendor's app. That means you'll need more than one ...

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

Windows Defender supports Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows Server 2003. Microsoft's Windows Defender product manager Mike Chan says the anti-spyware utility, which was originally acquired when ...

Consumer-grade phone surveillance apps aren’t only intended to stay stealthy; some of these apps are also making it increasingly difficult to remove them ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Stepping up its fight against computer threats at the risk of alienating security businesses, Microsoft Corp. announced Tuesday it will give away a program to combat ...

Research released by Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) claims that internet service providers (ISPs) participated in a spyware campaign, including disabling victims’ mobile data. The tech giant’s ...

Spyware and stalkerware have been ever-present threats of the digital world for about as long as the modern internet has existed. As their names imply, their primary purpose is to spy on their victims ...

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 ...

President Biden’s recent executive order targeting the use of commercial spyware poses a serious threat to the digital surveillance industry, experts say, as some companies weigh the impact that the ...

Apple has issued a new warning to iPhone users after discovering they are being targeted by spyware. Here's what you need to ...

The market for commercial spyware — which allows governments to invade mobile phones and vacuum up data — is booming. Even the U.S. government is using it. By Mark Mazzetti Ronen Bergman and Matina ...