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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 ...

The problem of adware -- software that's installed, often surreptitiously, to serve targeted online consumer advertisements -- has come into focus in recent days as New York Attorney General Eliot ...

A Malwarebytes report says threats to Mac computers "increased exponentially" over the last year compared to Windows PCs. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

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 ...

Google has removed 15 of 21 Android applications from the official Play Store over the weekend following a report from Czech antivirus maker Avast. The security firm said the apps were infected with a ...

Over 60,000 Android apps disguised as legitimate applications have been quietly installing adware on mobile devices while remaining undetected for the past six months. The discovery comes from ...

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 ...