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06:11 15th April 2011
Cybercriminals are hiding malware content by using shortened URLs and then tricking internet users, according to Con Mallon, director of Norton, the consumer online protection brand.
"We are seeing that people are being tricked and they're clicking on those shortened URLs," he said, comma needs to be.
"People have become a little more savvy to looking at the URL to see if it really does look like a proper URL," he said.
The expert claimed Delete, mentioned at the end too links "changes the game" and becomes become "another way of obfuscating some of these attacks," the expert claimed.
According to figures published by WatchMouse, Facebook's fb.me, Google's goo.gl and BudURL are the fastest and most reliable URL shorteners in terms of uptime.
Some experts have recognised that shortening URLs is an efficient way to tackle URLs that otherwise might be too long on site like Amazon or AOL but warn they might become a security hazard.
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