If you scan QR codes for online payments, you too may fall prey to scammers. Reports have shown that in many places, people's ...

You might be used to receiving scam emails or texts, but did you know that you can also get scammed through a QR code? This increasingly common form of scam is referred to as quishing – and it's been ...

Quick response codes or QR codes that you can scan from your phone are everywhere: Parking meters, concert venues, and restaurants to name a few spots. But Boston 25 News found crooks are also using ...

QR codes are not harmless.

Nearly three quarters (72%) of Brits do not check QR codes before scanning, with only one in six (16%) aware of potential QR scams, according to new research by NordVPN Over three million people have ...

I was playing around on my iPhone the other day and happened to use 3D Touch on the icon for the Google Chrome Web browser. Imagine my surprise when one of the “quick actions” that Chrome presented ...

A big-time Google upgrade could put an end to the struggle of scanning a QR code from a long way away. Whether it's across the room on a wall or across the highway on a billboard, a new scanner ...

When the pandemic hit, QR codes were suddenly everywhere, providing a fast, contact-free way to access everything from restaurant menus to digital business cards to websites with important health ...

Scanning a Quick Response, or QR code, is convenient and easy. And it is contactless, which can make people feel safer in public places such as restaurants, many of which substituted the codes for ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, people have become accustomed to using their smartphone cameras to scan small black-and-white square bar codes, allowing them instantly to do everything from access ...