When you pick up a boarding pass, it has many of your personal details splashed all over it. But the innocuous-looking barcode contains an even richer seam of information about your travel plans and ...

Your seemingly harmless boarding pass actually reveals a lot more about you than what is printed on it in plain English. Data thieves can learn your frequent flier number, personal data associated ...

The next time you’re thinking of throwing away a used boarding pass with a barcode on it, consider tossing the boarding pass into a document shredder instead. Two-dimensional barcodes and QR codes can ...

Almost all airlines have now switched to boarding passes containing a barcode. A barcode looks like a sequence of straight lines – thick and thin. QR codes look like a square spilled with ink. Though ...

The next time you board a flight, be careful about how you dispose of your boarding pass after you land. It turns out, the barcode on the bottom of airplane boarding passes is not just a bunch of ...

You probably don't realize it, but the data stored within the barcode at the bottom of your airline boarding pass can hold personal information that could be valuable to hackers, identity thieves or ...

Thai Airways International Public Company Limited (THAI) announced that electronic boarding passes issued on smartphones will be used in lieu of paper boarding passes, which will be introduced on ...

Security flaws in how airline boarding passes encode passenger approval information could open a loophole for terrorists, researchers have warned, after exploring the barcodes printed on US passes.

IATA announced that worldwide implementation of 2D barcode boarding passes has been completed, replacing the more expensive and less efficient magnetic stripe boarding passes, which have been in use ...

An aviation enthusiast has detailed a potential security vulnerability involving the barcodes found on flight boarding passes. Currently, the barcodes are unencrypted, allowing anyone with a scanner ...