Spammers are experimenting with a new tactic to improve their success rate: setting up their own URL-shortening sites as a way to dodge anti-spam software and avoid protections put in place by ...

Spammers have created their own services to shorten URLs (uniform resource locators) in an apparent attempt to circumvent security measures in place at well-known shortening websites, according to ...

URL shorteners have become a popular tool for spammers to hide their spam sites, but now there's a spam gang with at least 80 public URL-shortening service websites open for anyone to use. Researchers ...

Google today launched its own URL shortening service, aptly named the Google URL Shortener (http://goo.gl/). The service is, for the moment, only available in the ...

The May 2011 report notes that - for the first time ever - spammers are now establishing their own their own fake URL-shortening services to perform link redirection. This new spamming activity, the ...

Helsinki, Finland --- September 26, 2012 --- Web of Trust (WOT), a community-powered safe-surfing tool that helps web users find reliable websites, recently completed an analysis of nearly 1.7 billion ...