Varonis Threat Labs is shining a spotlight on a decade-old vulnerability that opens the door to URL spoofing. By exploiting how browsers handle Right-to-Left (RTL) and Left-to-Right (LTR) scripts, ...

For years, URL shorteners have been an easy way to share lengthy links on the internet. Rather than typing out a web address that is both ugly and seemingly endless, you can put it through a shortener ...

Google may have partially walked back a plan to deprecate all shortened goo.gl links, but millions of links that rely on the link shortener will still break before the end of August. Links created ...

Google announced that they will continue to support some links created by the deprecated goo.gl URL shortening service, saying that 99% of the shortened URLs receive no traffic. They were previously ...

After originally planning to have all goo.gl URLs stop working later this month, Google will now “preserve actively used links.” In July of 2024, Google said all existing goo.gl links would stop ...

Google previously announced it would end support for all goo.gl URLs on August 25, 2025. The company has reversed course and will preserve actively used shortened links. Links that were redirected in ...

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...

Recipients of rogue emails may be more likely to click on wrapped links, assuming they’ve been vetted by security services. Attackers are exploiting the URL wrapping practices of email security ...

Weijia Jiang is the senior White House correspondent for CBS News based in Washington, D.C. Jiang has covered the White House beat since 2018, including the transitions between presidential ...

Editor's take: The number of services Google has chosen to retire is starting to resemble a digital massacre. While Mountain View excels at launching new products, its track record for long-term ...