Shorter URLs help phishers hook more victims
News Phishers are using shorter URLs for malicious sites in a bid to lend an air of legitimacy to threatening links. Internet Security Services (ISS), IBM's online security division, claims to have noticed a significant drop in the number of characters...
[December 3, 2007, 7:56]
Check If URLs Exist (Is Valid) Software
Downloads Verify links (URLs) to see if web sites are still active. This program can extract the links inside a web page and check if those links exist as well. You have the option to save the valid or invalid links to file.
[December 2, 2006, 7:00]
Major spike in spam containing shortened URLs
News Shortened URLs, which allow spammers to hide the real web address from web surfers, and are commonly used on social media sites such as Twitter where message character length is restricted, began a sharp rise last week and now appear in more than...
[July 8, 2009, 9:35]
Tiny URLs shorten Web addresses
News Sites like TinyURL.com, Shorlify and Make A Shorter Link aim to solve a problem as old as the mainstream Web itself: after database-generated Web addresses, also known as uniform resource locators (URLs), get to be a certain length, they become...
[December 23, 2003, 13:55]
Icann gives green light to non-Latin URLs
News The introduction of domains with non-Latin characters could give cybercriminals more of an opportunity to spoof URLs, security vendor Sophos warned. Icann has given approval for the use of non-Latin characters in top-level domains, opening the door...
[October 30, 2009, 16:10]
Web Threats: Focus on Malicious URLs
White Papers At the heart of many Web threats today is the seemingly innocuous URL in an email. Called a "Malicious URL" by cyber security experts, this link can lead to a range of unwanted eventualities. Enticed to click on these malicious links by persuasive...
[June 30, 2009, 1:19]
Misleading URLs may become illegal
News The US House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on Thursday about a proposal that would criminalise using misleading domain names to lure unsuspecting people to sex sites. Under the proposal, a last-minute amendment to an unrelated child...
[March 27, 2003, 10:12]
Deceptive URLs and 'virtual' porn banned
News The US House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to ban pornographic Internet sites with misleading addresses and computer-generated child pornography. During a debate over a bill to create a notification network for child...
[March 28, 2003, 12:14]
LaunchIt NOW Plus
Downloads Why waste your valuable time searching for the programs, files, folders and favorite URLs you want to open if you can have them always at hand, organized and ready to be launched? Plus allows you to: - have a multi-desktop-like window with full...
[August 24, 2006, 8:00]
US Senate restarts .XXX debate
Talkback Yes to the mandatory .XXX urls! I am also looking forward to the .XXX urls to open up for financial reasons, they will be a hundred times more valuable in this industry than any .com. Porn sites in non .XXX urls should not get immediately banned.
[March 20, 2006, 15:45]
Ez Parental Control
Downloads Ez Parental Control blocks Web site Urls And Programs from running on yours, your child's or employees computer. Features: Blocks Web site Urls, Blocks Programs, Shows Running Process Details, View Detailed History Report, Stealth (invisible...
[April 15, 2008, 9:39]
Irssi Url Tracker
Downloads This script will allow you to track and view URLs posted in various channels. It will also list all the URLs that have been posted, and let you clear out the log of URLs when you see fit. If you want to pull up the last URL posted in a channel, you...
[November 5, 2005, 7:00]
Bit.ly Tools
Downloads Bit.ly Tools is an easy-to-use utility that lets you create short URLs with your iPhone using the bit.ly or j.mp service, and then copy these links to the clipboard so you can use them in other iPhone applications.
[December 8, 2009, 16:09]
BookmarkHit
Downloads Powerful URLs bookmark manager. Use a reliable URLs bookmark manager like BookmarkHit to keep the source of your information under your fingertips. BookmarkHit is not dependent on any web browser to store URL bookmarks.
[June 30, 2003, 8:00]
iGo
Downloads iGo is a very simple and powerful utility allowin to store URLs which you often uses. These URLs are accessible in a small window. Very useful if you don't want to manage URLs in your web browser.iGo also have a powerful import and export...
[July 10, 2003, 8:00]
IE Privacy Cleaner
Downloads From the developer: "IE Privacy Cleaner can delete Cookies(include cookies manager), clear Cache,delete index.dat, clear Typed URLs(URLs Keeper), History, IE Media, Windows Media playlist, AutoComplete password, Downloaded Program files.delete and...
[September 18, 2002, 1:28]
URL Box
Downloads URL Box is the glue between your URLs and your web browser. It is a convenient way to temporarily or permanently store URLs for launching in the default web browser. It's for those URLs that you want quick access to or that you don't want...
[February 6, 2002, 7:00]
BrowserService
Downloads BrowserService is a free Mac OS X service which provides a consistent interface for opening URLs and files in various Mac browsers. URLs and file paths selected in Services-aware applications can be opened in a specified browser or in the default...
[February 14, 2003, 7:00]
CIP
Downloads A hosts file is used by your browser to resolve IPs for the URLs you attempt to access. By putting your URLs and IPs in your hosts file, you speed up your browser, make better use of your online time, and get where you're going a lot faster.
[April 10, 2001, 0:57]
Safari Automator Fun
Downloads Set of six Automator applications for use with Safari and Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard): Download Image URLs Download URLs Mail RSS to TextEdit Read Web Page Safari RSS to TextEdit Safari Text to TextEdit
[November 28, 2007, 7:00]



