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 ...

Google is deploying its own link shorteners, search.app and share.google, for content shared from Discover. The new short links obscure source websites but retain the ability to generate rich previews ...