A California court has ordered Israeli spyware merchant NSO Group to pay $167.25m in punitive damages, and $444,719 in compensatory damages, for enabling state-backed hacks of mobile devices belonging ...

The Austrian government is likely to face legal challenges after it succeeded on its fifth attempt to pass a law this month that gives the country’s intelligence service legal powers to deploy spyware ...

A Van Nuys man was sentenced Thursday to three years’ probation and ordered to pay a $500 fine for scheming to market and sell malware that gave purchasers control over computers and enabled them to ...

TechWeb News reported last week that British authorities recently thwarted an electronic bank robbery that involved keylogger software, a kind of computer spyware. The plan was to steal $423 million ...

A programmer said the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) installed spyware on his Android phone after he was detained in Moscow earlier this year. Security researchers confirmed that his phone had ...

The word “spyware” sends a chill down the spine of the most hardened Internet veterans, and for good reason. But not all spyware is sinister. By definition, it is software that tracks what you do on a ...

A group of hackers with links to the North Korean regime uploaded Android spyware onto the Google Play app store and were able to trick some people into downloading it, according to cybersecurity firm ...

WASHINGTON - It's the newest computer security problem to attract the attention of Congress: spyware, or software designed to collect computer users' personal data without their knowledge. Secretly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ireland is considering new legislation to give its law enforcement agencies more surveillance powers, including allowing the use ...

As with the wars against computer viruses and junk e-mail, or spam, the battle against spyware has been one of ever-evolving one-upsmanship, with spyware removal applications struggling to keep up ...

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Senate Commerce Committee members Wednesday stressed the importance of striking the right balance with legislation to help fight secretly installed computer spyware and provide the FTC with the tools ...