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 ...

Short URLs are handy for cleaning up long links, but they also hide the true destination. If you want to avoid malware or a phishing scam, blindly clicking that link isn't your best bet—there are ...

A recent paper by Cornell Tech researcher Vitaly Shmatikov and independent researcher Martin Georgiev demonstrated that shortening URLs can have serious privacy consequences. Because shortened URLs ...

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.

AVG has added a feature to its LinkScanner Web security product that scans shortened URLs, which can often blindly lead users into a malicious software attack. LinkScanner, which AVG launched as a ...

Finding a way to climb up in PageRank without spending a ton of money is good for any small business. While URL shorteners have been around for many years, marketing experts say the manner in which ...

A shortened URL is so much easier to work with, especially for those who like brevity of things or struggle with keyboard shortcut options. You can think again. What seems to be a convenient service ...

Shortened URL’s are a fact of life in social media these days. If you’re a regular Twitter user or engage in other social media, then you’ve no doubt seen shortened URLs, also called shortened ...

Links shortened with goo.gl will keep working, but the search giant will phase out the creation of new shortened links. Laura wrote about e-commerce and Amazon, and she occasionally covered cool ...