On an Android phone, you can disable all potential spam messages from Google's Messages app. Tap the profile icon in the ...

Text messages that come to your phone as spam messages are a nuisance at best and a risk to your personal security at worst. But somewhere in between lies a unique type of spam text message that ...

Whether you’re using an iPhone or Android device, learning how to forward a text message is pretty simple, and you might be surprised by how useful it is. It’s particularly handy when you need to send ...

Whether you've fallen for text message scams in the past or even just side-eyed a slightly suspicious text, there's no reason to feel embarrassed—according to the FTC, text message scams shook ...

The FBI is warning phone users to encrypt their text messages, especially if you send messages between Apple and Android users. The FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) ...

In this historically divisive time, there’s agreement on one thing: Political texting is completely out of control. That ping on your phone, once welcomed, is delivering a textapocalypse of doomsday ...

With a SIM-swapping attack, scammers hijack your phone number to gain access to apps on your phone—including banking apps.

A common scam tactic is back and affecting Ohioans. Over the past few weeks, many Ohioans have received text messages saying they have unpaid road tolls and will face penalties or legal action if they ...

If you've received an innocent-sounding text from a number you don't recognize, it's not actually innocent. It's likely the start of a "wrong phone number" scam, which is increasingly being used to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. Update: Republished on May 6 with new intelligence on the scale of ...