Symantec, within its "Symantec Intelligence Report for October 2011" released recently states that spammers have discovered one technique for bypassing security systems installed on URL-condensing Internet sites, which identify and eliminate malevolent web-links and that's by resorting to the domain name .info and setting their own utilities.
Notably, the company has detected over eighty websites that spammers created for reducing URL addresses' number of characters, reveals the report.
Website addresses that are reduced in length can cause security danger as people clicking on them can't be sure whether they'll be taken onto an authentic or malicious website. In addition to the popular URL-shortening websites like bit.ly, several organizations now possess their own website address condensers, thereby making end-users face certain challenge of staying aware of all such services, Symantec emphasizes.
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