If you buy a new phone, Google makes it easy to transfer most of your data, letting you pick up where you left off. However, text messages won't automatically be transferred to your new phone. So any ...

Attackers can force mobile phones to send premium-rate SMS messages or prevent them from receiving messages for long periods of time by leveraging a logic flaw in mobile telecommunication standards.

The entire world shifted from Short Message Service (SMS) to other chat services like WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, etc. The feature-rich alternative messaging apps lured users and have been improving ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — Has this happened to you? A text was sent from your phone to one of your contacts, and you didn’t send the text or participate in the ensuing conversation? This happened to local ...

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 ...

In a new twist, spammers have built a botnet that sends SMS spam through infected Android phones, shifting the potentially pricey cost of sending spam to victims. The trend, spotted by security vendor ...

Make calls and send texts from a PC with the Windows Your Phone app This article explains how to download, set up, and use Microsoft's Phone Link, which connects your ...

No, it’s really not just you. There are more spam SMS messages flying around than ever before. It doesn’t matter where you live or what phone you own, spam text messages trying to con you out of money ...

Hackers armed with a moderately sized network of zombie computers theoretically could knock out cellular service throughout the U.S., according to security researchers at Pennsylvania State University ...

UNICEF and partners have launched an SMS preregistration system to bring COVID-19 vaccine doses and the people who need them together. An SMS preregistration program in the Democratic Republic of ...

In a web browser on your computer, go to www.aka.ms/phonelinkQRC and scan the QR code. Tap View Permissions and enable the permissions the app requests (Phone, SMS ...