Apple recently revealed a new set of rules that app developers must follow. From October, App Store developers will have to clearly and explicitly say just how users' personal data is used, secured ...

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While providers of adware, or software-based marketing tools, continue to nudge their way into the reluctant embrace of online marketers, consumers have not been shy about speaking out against them, ...

Adware company Zango Inc. profits from copyright infringement, a Harvard University researcher charged today, after the company claimed that sites serving up links to pirated movies were operating ...

Adware stuffed into software you can freely download from the internet can secretly take screenshots of your desktop among other sneaky spyware-like capabilities. Dubbed as Zacinlo by Bitdefender, the ...

The decision by adware leader Claria to postpone its initial public offering comes as the fast-growing business of advertising-supported software is increasingly coming under pressure. For years, ...

A French security researcher has stumbled upon an adware delivery scheme that involves clone websites that use legitimately-looking domain names to trick victims into downloading famous apps, but ...

Computer security has evolved its own terminology and shorthand terms, many of which can be puzzling. Here are some brief definitions. Software downloaded to your computer without your permission, ...

Zango Inc., the adware distributor that has tangled with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), laid off 68 employees — about a third of its workforce — earlier this week, according to a senior executive ...

Two anti-spyware bills are being readied in time for a hearing Thursday in the U.S. House of Representatives. The measures, one sponsored by a California Republican and the other by a Washington ...

Security experts have welcomed a legal settlement that has held advertisers responsible for adware for the first time in the US. Communications company Cingular Wireless and travel company Priceline ...