A QR code, or Quick Response code, allows users to scan it with a smartphone camera and be directed to any online destination. These square grids of pixels are commonly used to view a menu, add ...

Those square-shaped, jigsaw-puzzle-like QR codes have been popping up almost everywhere in hotels this year, from key card packets to cocktail napkins to bedroom pillows. And sometimes, you never know ...

In some parts of the world, the authorities have encouraged the public to check-in to events and shops they visit by scanning a QR code into a COVID-19 app. It doesn’t grant you the right to enter a ...

Facebook posts about the dangers of consumers receiving a package as part of a brushing scam warn that the lone act of scanning a malicious QR code — a code found inside the unsolicited parcel — can ...

Nintendo has added a QR code check-in function to My Nintendo. Everyone with a My Nintendo account has access to a custom QR code, and can use this code to "exclusive My Nintendo member benefits" at ...

The perp faces jail time, but the incident highlights the growing cyber-abuse of QR codes. Quick-response (QR) codes used by a COVID-19 contact-tracing program were hijacked by a man who simply ...

Editor's Note: In a previously published version of this article, a word was missing in Deputy Secretary of State Jordan Fuchs’ comment about bringing a photo of a ballot to a taco stand. It has been ...

While the National Citizens' Movement for Free Elections launched an app that can be used by voters in scanning QR codes to verify election transmitted results, this will not show the names of ...