Bryan Fleming, the founder of hacked stalkerware company pcTattletale, pleaded guilty to federal charges linked to the running of his now-defunct Michigan-based spyware company.

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 ...

Apple offers two options that are triggered by iPhone hardware and are not fully in software. Either “press and hold either ...

Spyware is designed to stay invisible, so if it’s hiding on your computer, you’re not supposed to notice—at least not right away. I want to walk you through the specific warning signs, tools, and ...

The spyware industry’s worst kept secret has finally been spoken aloud in a federal courtroom: the boss behind pcTattletale has admitted to hacking and to selling software designed to let customers ...

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 ...

Sometimes, the company that gets the complaint is rightly to blame. But with alarming frequency, officials at these and other technology companies say they are tracing customer problems back to one ...

Federal authorities have asked a U.S. District Court judge to shut down an operation that they said installed intrusive spyware on people's computers and then sold the victims anti-spyware software, a ...

Webroot’s quarterly report on spyware is a very interesting read and is available as a free download from the company’s Web site. For messaging managers, network administrators and others charged with ...

Spyware legislation that would allow fines of up to $3 million for makers of software that steals personal information from a user’s computer or hijacks its browser will get a second look after the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The founder of a U.S.-based spyware company, whose surveillance products allowed customers to spy on the phones and computers of ...