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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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
eBay fights to cover phishing hole
News eBay is fighting to repair a software glitch that opens the door to phishing attacks using one of its own legitimate URLs. The flaw may have already allowed individuals to use one of eBay's URLs to trick unsuspecting parties into visiting malicious...
[March 7, 2005, 8:20]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Ten reasons open-source smart phones will not win out
Blog Comment Basically, we allow two URLs in each comment or Talkback post, and this usually works fine. You can respond to your moderation alert email if you want to make sure this is done, but most quarantined posts are checked within hours of being posted...
[July 24, 2009, 17:44]
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, 6:00]
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]
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]
URLgrabber
Downloads IRCmagic URL collection plug-in that automatically collects URLs and email addresses, displays URLs in your browser, and types URLs to the current channel.
[June 21, 2001, 8:00]
