Your smartphone is full of surprises. There’s an app if you want to use your phone as a magnifying glass or scanner. Tap or click here for hidden apps on your smartphone and how to find them.

Learn how to scan QR codes on Android with ease using your camera app. Simple steps to get you started quickly.

Scan and be scammed. Officials are warning about a rise in “quishing attacks,” whereby con artists use nefarious QR codes that direct smartphone users to malicious sites that steal personal ...

Quishing,” or QR-code phishing, is emerging as a fast-growing fraud tactic. • Consumer advocates say older adults are among the most frequent targets ...

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Among the many changes brought about by the pandemic is the widespread use of QR codes, graphical representations of digital data that can be printed and later scanned by a smartphone or other device, ...

Consumers with mobile phones accepted QR codes during the pandemic to access menus and other information, becoming a more attractive tool for marketers. But with that attraction comes security risks.

LOS ANGELES - Suddenly, they're popping up everywhere - those square, futuristic-looking matrixes that appear to be a cross between abstract art and Rorschach tests. You'll find them in the corner of ...

Two-dimensional barcodes called Quick Response codes, or QR codes for short, are used to store data that devices can read. While QR codes are popularly scanned via smartphones, what if you want to ...