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.

Consumer technologies often improve our lives, but they can give cyber-criminals new ways to threaten our privacy and steal our identities. As QR codes continue to grow in popularity, cyber-criminals ...

QR codes that were once seen as a convenient shortcut for checking menus or paying bills have increasingly been turned into weapons. Fake delivery texts, counterfeit payment links and malicious codes ...

Benjamin Claeys is CEO of QR TIGER, MENU TIGER, and GiftLips. He also hosts Stay QRious, a podcast about QR code best practices. The idea for QR codes was first conceived to help track automotive ...