For some $200 a month, the triad’s customers can get a scam rolling, even if they have no technical savvy themselves. Think ...

Hackers sent text messages to users from trusted SMS numbers, referencing nonexistent transactions and directing them to call ...

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 ...

Text messaging scams are rising beyond fake E-ZPass, EZDriveMa or other road toll collection services seeking immediate payments of unpaid tolls and fines. 'Smishing' text fraud has invaded cell ...

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. The technology underpinning early mobile text messaging began development in the 1980s. The short message service (SMS) ...

(This story has been updated to add new information and to correct an error.) Cellcom reported it's "making progress" on an outage that began May 14 and has left ...

We've probably all received confirmation codes sent via text message when trying to sign into an account. Those codes are supposed to serve as two-factor authentication to confirm our identity and ...