BleepingComputer

Evasive phishing mixes reverse tunnels and URL shortening services

Security researchers are seeing an uptick in the use of reverse tunnel services along with URL shorteners for large-scale phishing campaigns, making the malicious activity more difficult to stop. This ...
The Des Moines Register

ZA.GL Launches a New URL Shortener With Built-In Security, Analytics and AI Tools

The new URL shortener combines destination transparency, advanced link controls, analytics, AI-powered landing pages and publishing tools. CA, UNITED STATES ...
BleepingComputer

Massive cybercrime URL shortening service uncovered via DNS data

An actor that security researchers call Prolific Puma has been providing link shortening services to cybercriminals for at least four years while keeping a sufficiently low profile to operate ...
Network World

Google claims its new URL shortening service is more secure

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 ...
techtarget

Are long URLs better for security than short URLs?

My organization has created a URL for a Google Doc for others to share. The URL contains more than 100 characters. Are there security issues in shortening the URL to six characters? Are there benefits ...
Computerworld

Spammers create their own URL shortening services

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 ...
Network World

Google gives URL shortener its own site, touts performance and security

URL shorteners have become a ubiquitous presence on the web, largely due to the rise of Twitter. Tinyurl, Bit.ly and the like have come along to make those ugly long URLs look nice and neat in your ...