Iran’s government is sending text messages to mobile subscribers about its military response to U.S. strikes in order to ...

Margaret Qualley spends most of her new Vanity Fair cover story being guarded — she doesn’t want to talk too much about her husband, Jack Antonoff; her mother, Andie MacDowell; or the potential names ...

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.

US A NEW TWIST ON THESE POTENTIALLY COSTLY MESSAGES. LAST YEAR, NEWS EIGHT ON YOUR SIDE REPORTED ON TURNPIKE TEXT MESSAGE SCAMS MANY TIMES, BUT IN THE LAST WEEK OR SO, WE’VE HEARD FROM A SURPRISING ...

Spammers and malicious actors inundate us with a steady stream of text messages—often purporting to be from legitimate institutions or companies. Stanching this flow isn’t easy. Just as the unwanted ...

Did you get this text from Verizon about *** $20 credit? This one is real. Here's what's going on. So after an outage knocked out service for customers nationwide, Verizon now says it's going to give ...

PCWorld explains how to identify SMS cost traps that use urgent language and fake prizes to trick recipients into calling premium-rate numbers or replying to texts. These scams matter because ...

Google Messages is reportedly testing a new long-press menu for text and image actions. This may replace the current toolbar design at the top of the screen. Each action in the menu is accompanied by ...

Cardi B shared an alleged text message from the woman who accused her boyfriend, Stefon Diggs, of strangling and assaulting her. “I’m sooo sorry, I can’t talk to you, I didn’t say that especially in ...

A malicious package in the Node Package Manager (NPM) registry poses as a legitimate WhatsApp Web API library to steal WhatsApp messages, collect contacts, and gain access to the account. A fork of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. Updated on Dec. 3 with advice on other encrypted messaging platforms ...