QR code-based phishing attacks appear to be on the rise. For this "new" hacking vector, someone gets a phishing email asking them to scan a QR code, that code redirects to a malicious link (usually to ...

I have a friend who calls me occasionally to help him with various little things having to do with the technology at his house. This week, one of his requests was to learn more about QR codes and how ...

Among the many changes brought about by the pandemic is the widespread use of QR codes, graphical representations of digital data that can be printed and later scanned by a smartphone or other device, ...

Anatomy of a QR code While it is easy for people to read Arabic numerals, it is hard for a computer. Bar codes encode alphanumeric data as a series of black and white lines of various widths. At the ...

Among the many changes brought about by the pandemic is the widespread use of QR codes, graphical representations of digital data that can be printed and later scanned by a smartphone or other device, ...

It's generally best to avoid scanning a QR code of unknown origin, and caution is becoming more important as threats proliferate. Anybody can make a QR code in a matter of seconds using free online ...

With a little casual hexadecimal memorization and pattern recognition skill, you can become a QR code-reading machine — no pesky computer required! The black and white boxes represent binary 1s and 0s ...

Nitin Gupta, founder of QRCodeChimp. He's a technology leader with over two decades of technology development and management experience. The Internet of Things, or IoT, allows various internet-enabled ...