A harmless text message can quickly become expensive. Read this article to find out in which cases you should not respond.

If you get an urgent text message about a package, it's probably a scam. Here's how to tell, and how to avoid getting suckered.

Spam texts have quietly become one of the most effective tools for scammers, blurring the line between annoying marketing and ...

Toll road sca m mers are at it again with fake E-ZPass, EZDriveMa and other road tol l collection services claiming you owe unpaid tolls and seeking immediate payment by asking you to "click here" – ...

If you, like practically anyone else with a cell phone in the U.S. and beyond, have received a scam text message about an unpaid toll or undelivered mail item, there’s a good chance you have been ...

Here is how to stay safe as criminals increasingly target smartphone owners.

SMS blasters are portable devices which impersonate a mobile phone network tower and are used by cybercriminals.

Ever wondered why your text messages sometimes fail to send, show up pixelated or don’t appear at all on the other person’s end? It might not be your phone, but your carrier’s messaging support.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. An analysis published Feb. 24 by researchers from the Intel471 ...

A recent reader comment about SMS security and reliability issues, dovetails nicely with the presentation that Barbara Rapchak, CEO of Leap of Faith Technologies gave last week at the TEPR conference ...