A Code Blue alert has been issued by the Lebanon County Coalition to End Homelessness, in partnership with the Lebanon County Department of Emergency Services, to start Thursday evening because of ...

Staying aware of your surroundings matters. That includes hearing smoke alarms, appliance beeps or a knock at the door. Still, real life gets busy. You wear headphones. You get focused. Sounds slip by ...

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 ...

Google launched Android Emergency Live Video on Wednesday, which allows people to stream video when contacting emergency responders. This feature could help give first responders extra context in ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — A Code Blue has been issued for Erie County and the city of Buffalo for Thursday evening due to frigid temperatures The Code Blue shelter at the Buffalo City Mission is open from 7:00 ...

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 ...

The Lackawanna County Emergency Management Agency and city of Scranton declared a Code Blue weather alert from 8 p.m. Monday through 7 a.m. Tuesday. A Code Blue is issued during extreme cold, ...

Meta has announced that BirdyChat and Haiket are the first third-party messaging services that will have interoperability with WhatsApp in the European Union. The company has been working on enabling ...

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 ...

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