Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. You don’t need an app for this —your phone can do it already. You don’t need an app for this —your phone can do ...

There are multiple ways to scan a QR code with your Samsung phone, whether you use a budget device or one of the top foldable Android phones. However, some methods can be unreliable, causing you to ...

Last month, the FBI reiterated the dangers of “juice jacking,” an alleged practice wherein bad actors steal data or install malware on your smartphone through public chargers. The problem is, there ...

QR or Quick Response codes are one of the most popular ways to access information on the go. Invented in 1994 and once considered the wave of the future, part of the QR code revival that started in ...

Facebook posts about the dangers of consumers receiving a package as part of a brushing scam warn that the lone act of scanning a malicious QR code — a code found inside the unsolicited parcel — can ...

QR codes that were once seen as a convenient shortcut for checking menus or paying bills have increasingly been turned into weapons. Fake delivery texts, counterfeit payment links and malicious codes ...