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 ...

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 ...

The U.S. government’s must-pass defense policy bill includes a measure that aims to shield military servicemembers and diplomats from ensnarement by commercial spyware programs. The provision, slotted ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dear Action Line: What causes pop-up ads on the computer screen and how do I stop them? — N.R., Tulsa. US-CERT, Homeland Security's Computer Emergency Readiness ...

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 ...

Apple has announced a major overhaul of its bug bounty program that doubles the top reward to $2 million for exploit chains that can match the sophistication of mercenary spyware attacks. With bonuses ...

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 ...

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 ...

The House Energy and Commerce Committee approved modified versions of a pair of bills aimed at curbing abuse of social security numbers and computer spyware, respectively The House Energy and Commerce ...