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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When users click on the shortened URL created by d0z.me, an embedded iframe — part of an HTML document — opens with the shortened links, while a malicious piece of Javascript software “runs in the ...

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.

We always like it when our people work on their own projects and hobbies. Hacking cool stuff together is in our DNA and how most of the companies that make up The Next Web got started. So it shouldn’t ...

You can shorten a URL by using an URL shortener website, which will shrink your URL for free. Popular link shorteners on the internet include Bitly, TinyURL, and Rebrandly. You'll need a premium ...

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 ...

When users click on the shortened URL created by d0z.me, an embedded iframe — part of an HTML document — opens with the shortened links, while a malicious piece of Javascript software “runs in the ...