The social media revolution has created a new market for URL shortening services, such as tinyurl.com and bit.ly. These services take a URL such as http://www.thesecuritysamurai.com/2011/06/23/the-corporate-security-halftime-report-corporations-0-hackers-over-9000-by-rory-smith-soc-analyst/ and create a redirect site at tinyurl.com/<random string of characters> such as tinyurl.com/6b3bktp. This is particularly useful when linking to articles or media with long URLs such as the [...]
URL Shortening: A Hacker’s Delight, by Joshua Roback, SOC Supervisor
posted by CamillaM on July 20th, 2011 under Facebook, Security, Social Media