British officials held talks with a spyware company whose software was used to target journalists and was later sanctioned by ...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has confirmed it is using a spyware tool capable of hacking phones and intercepting encrypted messages, according to a Department of Homeland Security response ...

Microsoft Corp.’s announcement last week that it has purchased a small vendor of antispyware tools serves to highlight the growing seriousness of the spyware problem for users, according to security ...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement is using spyware tools that can intercept encrypted messages as part of the agency's efforts to disrupt fentanyl traffickers, according to a letter sent last week ...

Paragon, an Israeli spyware company that claims to operate as an “ethical” surveillance vendor, faced scrutiny when earlier this year Italy was caught using Paragon’s tools to spy on the phones of two ...

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 ...

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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 ...

For the last 30 years, stopping the flow of cybersecurity-related software has proven to be ineffective. It's unclear why it ...

Tools designed to fight off a spyware “epidemic” are expected to get close scrutiny from corporate users at next week’s RSA Conference in San Francisco. Spyware, which was a low-priority item on many ...

Organizations and law enforcement agencies fighting spyware are making progress, but new tools in an antispyware bill stalled in the U.S. Congress could improve the efforts, a member of the U.S.