When your bank sends a fraud alert from an unknown number, do you click the link without hesitation? When your favorite retailer texts about a sale, can you be sure it's really them and not a scammer?

Most of us expect our private messages to remain, well, private. If you had someone hanging over your shoulder every time you ...

Anonymous text messages containing disturbing content — such as claiming Black Americans had been “selected to pick cotton” — were sent the day after Election Day, targeting recipients in more than 20 ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - Boston's police, facing an upsurge in murder and other violent crimes, have set up a system to allow witnesses to tip them off to crime by sending anonymous text messages. Boston ...