A Twitter worm was seen spreading through malicious goo.gl links. Twitter said it is pushing out password resets to anyone affected. – A new Twitter worm has surfaced that abuses Google’s goo.gl link shortening
service.
The worm has been seen spreading with the following links: quot;goo.gl/R7f68 quot;
and quot;goo.gl/od0az. quot; Twitter is aware of the attack and stated in a tweet that
it is pushing out password resets to an…
You might be aware that sometime ago Google too jumped into the URL shortening bandwagon by introducing it’s own URL shortener called goo.gl. Though it was intended to be a competitor to tools like bit.ly and tinyurl, it didn’t have the features like analytics and stats which services like bit.ly have. Recently, Google updated its [...]
QR code is an image representation of specific URL destination on the web. These are used by mobile users to quickly hop on specific location without need to manually type the web address. For example, you can use qr code image of www.techf5.com to open website as against manual typing of www.techf5.com in your mobile [...]
Google gave goo.gl, its Google URL Shortener, its own home Sept. 30. Users can go to the goo.gl Website to shorten URLs and see history and analytics about content they minimized. – Google gave its Google URL Shortener history, analytics capabilities and its
own home Sept. 30, enabling users to shorten URLs from the new goo.gl Website.
URLs can be quite long and unwieldy, particularly for Twitter and other
services where character space per post is limited. Hence, the rise o…
Bit.ly, a URL shortening service popular among Twitter users, is partnering with VeriSign, Websense and Sophos to add a new level of security. The move addresses the growing abuse of shortened URLs, which conceal the full addresses of Websites, by attackers and spammers.
– Bit.ly, a URL shortening service popular among Twitter users, announced
partnerships Nov. 30 with security companies VeriSign, Websense and Sophos.
The alliance is designed to bring a new level of security to URL shortening,
which has increasingly been abused by spammers
and attackers. Services …
Cisco Systems is targeting the darkest corners of the Web with a new software blade for its S-series secure Web gateway appliance. The new software is designed to help organizations better enforce their URL filtering policies as the number of uncategorized sites continues to grow.
– Cisco Systems is looking to extend its URL filtering controls to what it refers to as the ‘Dark Web the nebula of sites that remain uncategorized by URL filtering databases.
With Cisco IronPort Web Usage Controls, the company is targeting the 80 percent of the Web it says is largely unknown to leg…
Yesterday, URL shortener tr.im announced that they’re shutting down.
Why? What do you need to know about it? What’s going to happen as bit.ly swoops in to the (attempted) rescue? Are we too dependent on services like tr.im to tie the social Web together?
Ten links to answer your questions:
tr.im R.I.P.
tr.im | August 9, 2009
Ryan Sholin says: [...]
Twitter is a popular way to socialize and micro blog online. On Twitter you can build huge community around your Twitter profile by following and getting followed by lot of other Twitter users. Incase you have decided to quit Twitter due to certain reason like: Twitter overload, allow someone else to grab your Twitter URL [...]
Every Twitter user is identified by its unique Twitter URL (For example, TechF5 has twitter URL twitter.com/techf5). Any Twitter user can change this username URL as per requirement. After the change, your Twitter username URL will change and rest everything including tweets, friends etc will remain the same.
Steps to change Twitter.com username URL
1. Goto Twitter.com [...]
Despite many other URL shortening services out there, here is another new service on this field: appsto.re. It focuses specifically on iTunes links.
Why use appsto.re URL’s? According to them:
They contain the name of your app, making people more likely to click.
They take people straight to iTunes, increasing the chance people will buy your app.
They are [...]
