Designed as a high-tech marketing resource, QR (quick response) codes have many useful applications. These (usually) black-and-white algorithmic codes are gateways to a potential multimedia nirvana.

You can't blame people for being too careful nowadays. Too often, you read in the news — including Stomp — about someone losing thousands of dollars to scammers after scanning a QR code. So it is not ...

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 ...