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, ...

The latest QR-enabled heist involves parking payments, and it has been spotted in major cities from Los Angeles to Denver.

According to NordVPN, 73% of Americans report scanning QR codes without verifying their source, with 26 million having ...

Newly discovered npm package 'fezbox' employs QR codes to hide a second-stage payload to steal cookies from a user's web browser. The package, masquerading as a utility library, leverages this ...

Watch out for quishing, or phishing through dodgy QR codes, the latest scam catching people unawares - costing some thousands ...

What is a QR Code? A quick-response code (QR code) is a type of barcode that contains data for a locator, an identifier, and web tracking. QR codes have been around for a long time. They were first ...

A newly-discovered malicious package with layers of obfuscation is disguised as a utility library, with malware essentially ...

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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 ...