Officials with the U.S. Postal Service are warning of an ongoing text messaging scam that could target you this holiday season. Known as “smishing,” the U.S. Postal Inspection Service says the scam ...

Blawnox officials have signed on to a new messaging system to send emergency alerts and other announcements to residents. The borough recently switched from Rave Mobile Safety to CivicPlus for mass ...

DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla., Dec. 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- SOS Technologies, the industry leader in active threat alert systems, today announced the successful deployment of its next-generation CAD911 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. Updated on Dec. 3 with advice on other encrypted messaging platforms ...

Satellite SOS can help people contact emergency services even when cellular or Wi-Fi is out of reach. However, this is more common on iPhones than on Android models. Google's Pixel 9 and Pixel 10 are ...

Syracuse, N.Y. – The state’s NY-Alert app was hacked last week, sending a message about a bogus transaction to the phones of tens of thousands of people signed up to get emergency notifications, state ...

This week, hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers received scam texts after their state's official text messaging system was breached by hackers, according to a report from NBC News. New York’s Office ...

Hackers on Monday hijacked a mass text messaging service, pushing hundreds of thousands of scam texts to people who subscribe to alerts from New York state, a Catholic charity and a political ...

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Swedish motorcyclists who were seriously injured in a crash on a Welsh road, were rescued when their bike detected the impact and sent out an automatic SOS. Johan Takats, 47, was riding a BMW R 1250 ...

An emergency alert test message from South Pasadena was accidentally sent to an estimated 10 million mobile phones across Los Angeles County Tuesday night. Just before 6 p.m., cell phone screens ...

When Apple introduced Emergency SOS via satellite on the iPhone 14 in 2022, it was a ground-breaker. A new report suggests that the service will change in the future and some more advanced elements ...