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A 23-year-old student named Craig Feigin is facing possible felony charges in Florida for allegedly putting spyware of the worst kind on up to 10 women's laptop computers. The programs, which he...
snocrossgjd writes "In a windowless underground computer lab in California, young men are busy cooking up viruses, spam and other plagues of the computer age. Grant Joy runs a program that surreptitiously records every keystroke on his machine, including user names, passwords, and credit-card numbers. Thomas Fynan floods a bulletin board with huge messages from fake users. Yet Joy and Fynan ...

"Their entire service is SPYWARE"
BroadbandReports.com, NY - 1 hour ago
RTC didn't even warn its customers they installed this spyware, and the opt-out option is a joke, all your packets still go to Nebuad even if you opt out, ...
How often have you heard the word “cloud” this week? We tend to believe that you should hear this word at least once a day, if you consider yourself an informed computer user. Following cloud computing devices, legal questions, various cloud computing projects of industry giants, we are also hearing more and more about possible services – services that may offer value and convince users to ...
3:42:25 PM Warning to all Facebook users: a new virus is going around that appears to infect the Facebook users' Friends lists. It sends out an email message with a link that asks you to download a plug-in to view a video.
ANN ARBOR, Mich.---Antivirus software on your personal computer could become a thing of the past thanks to a new "cloud computing" approach to malicious software detection developed at the University of Michigan.
Bit9, the pioneer and leader in Enterprise Application Whitelisting, today announced a new security solution for companies with Point-of-Sale systems and kiosks:
Antivirus software on your personal computer could become a thing of the past thanks to a new "cloud computing" approach to malicious software detection developed at the University of Michigan. read more
US consumers lost almost $8.5 bln over the last two years to viruses, spyware, and phishing schemes. Consumer Reports estimates that American consumers have replaced about 2.1 mln computers over the past two years because of online threats. Consumers have 1 in 6 chance of becoming a cybervictim, down from...

Tackling spam and spyware problems
Coventry Telegraph, UK - 22 minutes ago
Meanwhile, spyware is any covert software programme that gets in and installs itself on a computer, often via a website a user has visited, which then sends ...