What is phone number spoofing? Phone spoofing is when scammers get control of your phone number. They can then use your phone number to steal your data or use it to target other people. Instead of a ...

Black Americans across the United States received racist text messages Wednesday and Thursday telling them they were selected to be enslaved and sent to work on a cotton plantation, The Columbus ...

There is enough to worry about in life without the additional stress and terror of finding out your friends, family or complete strangers have been receiving a text ...

Some Verizon customers are reportedly receiving an unusual flurry of spam text messages. The reason they're so unusual is that the texts appear to be coming from the recipient's own phone number.

Bank caller ID spoofing scams are still happening frequently. But your bank will most likely never call you; if you get a call of any kind, hang up and call the number on your card directly or go into ...

You hear a lot of talk about mobile content security nowadays, particularly as a threat to the long-awaited emergence of mobile advertising. While the levels of threats vary from Asia to Europe to ...

As grocery delivery services have seen an increase in traffic from users during the coronavirus pandemic, Tenable Research identified an SMS spoofing flaw that could have allowed an attacker to send ...

Verizon warned customers on Tuesday not to open links found in text messages that appear to originate from their own phone numbers. According to a Sunday thread on the wireless network operator's ...

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