As of October 2, 2026, there have been a series of reports on social media regarding the URL shortening service 'X.gd,' with ...

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 ...

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 ...

Depending on your point of view, URL shortening is either a very useful tool or horrible for the Internet. Still, some apps like Twitter pretty much require URL shortening in order to share anything, ...

Shortened URLs arrive via social media and messages. While convenient, it is concerning that you have no idea where they lead ...

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 ...

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 ...

Social-networking sites and shortened URLs have become the favored technologies for scam artists to lure victims to websites that attempt to push malware or launch an attack, says a Symantec report ...

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 ...

Artwork: Chip Taylor Amazon and Twitter are the latest companies to offer their own URL shortening services, joining a crowded playing field of entrants. While the move by tech heavyweights Amazon and ...