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 ...

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 ...

Bitly had pretty much positioned itself as the leading URL shortener in a sea of way too many options, by offering its users a set of robust features – analytics, Bitly bundles, and more. With its ...