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Can Shortened URLs be Trusted?

July 7, 2009

MessageLabs, a division of Symantec, said today the presence of shortened URLs in spam has skyrocketed over the past few days and now appears in more than two percent of all spam.

Matt Sergeant, anti-spam technologist at Message Labs: “The entire trust model of clicking on the URL is completely broken.  You can’t trust any URL [...]

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