QR codes might be one of the most useful inventions of recent years, but they can also hide an unpleasant surprise. These scannable black and white images are now everywhere, letting Android and ...

Back in July, Google widely introduced a redesign of the Android QR code scanner, but then rolled it back. The updated interface is now starting to reappear. This is the QR code scanner available from ...

Mojang Studios announced Tuesday it will eliminate code obfuscation in Minecraft: Java Edition, marking a significant shift in how the company distributes the game to its modding community. The change ...

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During his speech to the U.N., Israel’s prime minister sought to focus attention on the carnage of the Hamas-led attacks on southern Israel that led to the war in Gaza. By Ephrat Livni Prime Minister ...

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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 ...

Two-dimensional barcodes called Quick Response codes, or QR codes for short, are used to store data that devices can read. While QR codes are popularly scanned via smartphones, what if you want to ...

The Java ecosystem has historically been blessed with great IDEs to work with, including NetBeans, Eclipse and IntelliJ from JetBrains. However, in recent years Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor ...

Security researchers at Barracuda Networks have discovered two novel QR code phishing (quishing) techniques involving splitting malicious QR codes into two parts or embedding them into legitimate ones ...