Shortened URLs, a service on many sites that turns lengthy Web addresses into shorter URLs, is rapidly becoming a popular way for spammers to reach unsuspecting readers. New analysis from Symantec’s ...

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, ...

Researchers at Microsoft have developed a tool to scrub search engines of major Web sites that pollute search results and ultimately help clean the Web of spam. Called Strider Search Defender, the ...

Symantec’s October Intelligence Report, released Tuesday, shows spammers increasingly embedding shortened URLs in e-mails in an attempt to lure people to malicious Web sites. “It’s ...

A crop of Web sites have sprung up with the mission of making long, easily breakable Web addresses shorter--and at least one of them is trying to make money at the idea. In some e-mail programs, the ...

Spammers are using a new technique of generating URLs to evade detection by humans and spam filters alike. This technique comprises adding random, unused text bits to shortened links, to disguise them ...

Spammers have found a way to abuse a URL shortener service destined for U.S. government social media activities in order to craft rogue .gov URLs for work-at-home scams. Security researchers from ...

Google’s John Mueller answered a tweet about the URL Removal Tool and why it wasn’t working how it was expected to. The question was in the context of a site that was hacked and generated Japanese ...