A Mesa firefighter advised drivers to consider keeping a fire extinguisher and a window punch inside their vehicles. The ...

The line between spam and scams is thin. Kurt "CyberGuy" Knutsson details his tips for identifying and avoiding phone scams, ...

Spam calls and texts continue to annoy Americans, and worse, they’re costing people money. Telephone companies should do more ...

Spam calls are incredibly annoying and while many modern smartphones have tools to help you manage them, the root ...

Learn about the techniques that mobile operators, device manufacturers, and software developers use to detect, filter, and prevent SMS spam on your phone.

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years ...

You think it’s a call from the doctor’s office or your child’s school. So, you stop what you’re doing and answer it — only to ...

Scam texts are a growing multibillion-dollar industry. As robocalls become less common — thanks, in part, to a 2009 law that ...

Don't worry about downloading apps -- your iPhone already has several tools to block all those annoying calls and texts from ...

This feature lets the Messages app automatically stop texts from numbers not in your contacts from cluttering up your inbox. This is an easy way to stop spam texts from bothering you without having to ...