You know that sinking feeling when you accidentally hit “reply all” to an email message? DoSomething.org felt that in spades when it mistakenly sent a text message meant for a group of 4,000 members ...

New York issued a warning on Tuesday after a spam message was sent through its official text message updates. Scott Reif, a spokesperson for the NYS Office of Information Technology Services, ...

CONSUMER REPORTS (AZFamily) — It starts with a ping. You’re in the middle of your day when a text pops up that there’s a problem with your package delivery, or a missed toll payment. These messages ...

THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION SAYS THE PERCENTAGE OF PEOPLE WHO WILL OPEN A TEXT MESSAGE WHEN THEY RECEIVE IT IS AS HIGH AS 98%, AND THOSE ARE GOOD ODDS FOR A SCAMMER. IN FACT, I JUST GOT ONE THIS WEEK ...

The original message was sent at 9:02 a.m. and intended for a limited group of emergency services staff. It appears that some additional recipients got it through the Nixle alerting service, but the ...

Republished on August 12 with new text message attack warnings. American smartphones are under attack from malicious text messages. This industrial scale campaign is driven by organized criminal gangs ...

Court officials in Philadelphia are warning people about a text messaging scam that claims to be from the city's municipal court and falsely tells recipients that they owe unpaid parking citations.