Web Link Shrinkage Powers Spam Surge
[Information Week] – Concerns raised in April about the security implications of Web link shortening services have proven to be well-founded: The presence of shortened URLs in spam messages has surged in the past week.
Shortened URLs now appear in more than 2% of spam messages, according to MessageLabs. Matt Sergeant, senior anti-spam technologist at the security company, attributes the spike to the development of automated tools for submitting Web links to URL shortening services…..
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