Your phone comes with strong built-in spam protection—you just need to turn it on. Here's how to do it on both iPhone and ...

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Use SMS messaging in text message marketing campaigns to reach customers on their mobile devices. Learn the types of SMS ...

Waiting for online shopping purchases to arrive? Stay vigilant against scammers pretending to be the U.S. Postal Service.

On November 19, Block Inc. held its first Investor Day in three years. Jack Dorsey, the company’s cofounder, chief executive, and “Block Head,” took to the stage and summarily posed what many ...

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 ...

A new Android banking trojan named Sturnus can capture communication from end-to-end encrypted messaging platforms like Signal, WhatsApp, and Telegram, as well as take complete control of the device.

For businesses and other enterprise environments, Google Messages today announced Android RCS Archival on Pixel phones. Some businesses, governments, and other organizations need to archive messages ...

Phone scams aren’t the only threat anymore — scam text messages (also called “smishing”) are exploding in frequency and in financial damage. According to recent FTC data, Americans lost over $470 ...

Google on Thursday revealed that the scam defenses built into Android safeguard users around the world from more than 10 billion suspected malicious calls and messages every month. The tech giant also ...

Google is adding two major updates to Android's Messages app. Starting now, Android Key Verifier is available to all Android devices running version 10 and above, reassuring users that their private ...

Jay Jones, the Democratic nominee for Virginia attorney general, expressed his regret for the graphic and violent language directed at a colleague in text messages in his opening statement in Thursday ...