This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Shortened URLs are a fact of life in social ...

Concern over the danger of shortened URLs may be overblown, according to a report released Wednesday by a researcher with security firm Zscaler. Zscaler made the announcement in the wake of news from ...

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, ...

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 ...

Google will officially deprecate links generated with its URL shortening tool next month. On August 25th, 2025, all links in the “https://goo.gl/*” format will no ...

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 ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

When you use LinkedIn, a professional social networking website, to post updates to your Home or Profile pages, LinkedIn automatically shortens any URL addresses that contain more than 26 characters.

Security researchers have discovered that short URLs are able to be brute-forced, potentially exposing personal data to anyone motivated to look. The issue was found by Martin Georgiev and Vitaly ...