Omar Gallaga has covered technology, digital culture and other topics for outlets including CNET, NPR, WIRED, Texas Monthly, MSNBC, Consumer Reports, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The ...

Link Rot: URL shortening is a technique designed to turn long web addresses into shorter, more manageable links. This process can make life easier for web visitors, but it can also introduce a new ...

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 ...

Bit.ly to Turn Its Diced-Up URLs Into a Real-Time News Feed The real-time push in online systems has attracted a new fan: Bit.ly. The URL shortening service has unveiled plans to turn its torrent of ...

Security researchers are seeing an uptick in the use of reverse tunnel services along with URL shorteners for large-scale phishing campaigns, making the malicious activity more difficult to stop. This ...