Symantec has released the July 2010 MessageLabs Intelligence Report which contains the usual interesting and relevant facts regarding trends in spam and malware. Of particular interest in this report, ...

What do you do? Well, that one is probably safe, as it uses YouTube’s own URL shortener. But what about all those other shortened URLS you see in emails, on Twitter and everywhere else? They could ...

When I first saw a shortened URL I was naturally suspicious. Working seven years for a security startup will do that to you. Though it hasn’t become a major security threat, yet, I think that ...

Shortened URLs, a service on many sites that turns lengthy Web addresses into shorter URLs, is rapidly becoming a popular way for spammers to reach unsuspecting readers. New analysis from Symantec’s ...

Most of us have clicked on a bit.ly or t.co link without a second thought, and these links are practically everywhere. These are known as link-shorteners, or URL-shorteners, and these services are ...

We hope you already know that you shouldn’t click on just any URLs. You might be sent one in a message; somebody might insert one under a social media post or you could be provided with one on ...

I was reading an interesting story the other day that I meant to blog about, but you can add that to the list of things destroyed by the launch of https://www.pcworld ...

MANHATTAN, N.Y., April 19, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ — CashFly.com made some waves in the online world today as the much anticipated link shortening service had it's official launch. CashFly.com is a ...