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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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Rewrite URLs to host multiple domains on a single IP address with Apache
White Papers It's not absolutely necessary to purchase a separate hosting account and IP address for each of your domains. Instead, you can use one of Apache's less well-known features to host multiple domains on a single IP address.
[May 18, 2006, 1:00]
Accessor.Launchbar
Downloads The desktop toolbar that is used to quickly launch programs, open files and URLs with one mouse click. Just add an icon for a program, a document file or a URLs to a panel in Accessory and you will be able to open them quickly and save your time.
[January 13, 2006, 5:43]
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]
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]
hURRLey
Downloads Using the hURRLey client application for Mac OS X 10.5+, hURRLey users are able to submit their favorite URLs to the social bookmarking service hURRL.com. We can't think of a quicker way to submit URLs :)
[April 3, 2008, 8:00]
Plug-In Helper
Downloads Plug-In Helper is an application which allows you to: Associate URLs with QuickTime movies and video tracks. Examples of the kinds of information you can add to a movie include plug-in playback control settings (whether to start playing the movie...
[December 16, 1999, 7:00]
NutURL
Downloads NutURL is a simple, yet versatile, application that will help you manage your URLs, user names, passwords, registration codes and programs. The first is manually entered information and the second is a file of imported URLs.
[November 15, 2001, 7:00]
Thurly
Downloads Thurly is a plug-in for Safari that allows you to both shorten URLs in a snap as well as post directly to Twitter without ever leaving your browser window. You can use the base features of the plug-in, shortening URLs and posting to Twitter, for...
[September 10, 2009, 14:42]
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, 6:00]
Safari Helper
Downloads Save and restore URLs (including tabs) that are currently loaded in Safari. Saved URLs can be restored anytime. This is useful if you need to restart or shutdown your computer. Change colors of all links or just visited links, remove link...
[June 18, 2004, 8:00]
Windows and Internet Cleaner Pro
Downloads Protect your privacy by cleaning up your browser's cache, cookies, history, typed URLs, index.dat, autocomplete memory, and tracks of past Windows activity. It allows you to erase browser cache, cookies, history, visited URLs, typed URLs...
[January 28, 2003, 10:11]
iURL
Downloads Unique features: URL Discovery: Find new URLs on web pages and auto-add them to your URL database URL Rediscover: Starting from discovered URLs, find new URLs on related pages Massload: Download several files with iURL's special Massload...
[June 9, 2007, 8:00]
SiteSpider
Downloads This program spiders a site and creates output files containing (1) a list of URLs in the site, (2) a Google sitemap, (3) an XML summary file with title, description, and keywords for each page, and (4) links to URLs external to the spidered domain.
[September 7, 2005, 13:33]
Earlier post
Talkback The post you mention may have been put into quarantine because it contained too many URLs. In an effort to curb spam and reduce phishing risks, we filter out any Talkback or comment that includes more than 2 URLs, and then manually reinstate those...
[June 8, 2009, 17:36]
