The most popular messenger app today is WhatsApp, and despite the rise of tools such as Telegram and Signal over the past couple of years, WhatsApp has held on strongly to its crown. Now, WhatsApp ...

QR codes soared in popularity during the pandemic for their convenience—but now scammers are using them for a new kind of phishing, dubbed “quishing.” From hijacked parking meter stickers to fake ...

Use your judgment, and if you're on the fence, don't scan. Verify the web address URL. Whenever you scan a QR code with the camera app on your smartphone, a notification will pop up on the screen ...

If your Android device's camera doesn't scan the QR code automatically, you'll need to use Google Lens, a feature that lets you search the web with your camera, in the Google Search app ...

As reported by Silicon Angle, threat actors are now embedding malicious JavaScript payloads in QR codes which causes them to ...

Figure E: QRbot, with web, Android and iOS apps, lets you create QR codes for a variety of links and actions. To create a QR code with QRbot: Go to the QRbot QR Generator. Select an action.

QR codes are dead, an internet marketing strategist wrote in AdAge in 2013. The murderer: "easier-to-use apps." And yet, four years later, that isn't the case. Apps have become even more prevalent ...

However, with a barcode or "quick response" scanner app, you can also install apps with QR codes that appear on websites, in magazines or on advertisements. Using the QR code to install ...