An important thing to know about the National Do Not Call Registry is that it can stop only sales calls. You may continue to receive: In other words, putting your number on the National Do Not Call ...

You must never make these calls. Republished on August 24 with a new federal agency warning on phone attacks. A stark FBI warning has just come to life on social media, with an attack on Microsoft ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. New Yorkers have just been warned to beware an attack that has stolen ...

TO CUT DOWN THOSE CALLS. THESE CALLS ARE GOING TO KEEP COMING, BUT THERE ARE SOME THINGS YOU CAN DO TO STOP SOME OF THEM. NUMBER ONE, PUT YOUR PHONE NUMBER ON THE NATIONAL DO NOT CALL REGISTRY. HERE’S ...

It never fails: Just as you sit down to enjoy a nice meal with the family, your phone rings. Sigh. Even more annoying is the fact that a glance at your smartphone screen doesn’t show who’s calling.

Your phone displays "No Caller ID" whenever the caller has chosen to hide their phone number from your screen. This differs from "Unknown Caller" or "Private Number," which typically point to ...

The Department of Homeland Security recently said that Chinese criminal gangs have made more than $1 billion from scams directed at US phone numbers. While phone-based scams once relied on random ...