Intelligent System Hunts Out Malware Hidden In Shortened URLs 16
An anonymous reader writes: Computer scientists at a group of UK universities are developing a system to detect malicious code in shortened URLs on Twitter. The intelligent system will be stress-tested during the European Football Championships next summer, on the basis that attackers typically disguise links to malicious servers in a tweet about an exciting part of an event to take advantage of the hype.
but (Score:4, Insightful)
it cant do anything about malware in long URLs
Ads (Score:1)
Yeah, I would say the first thing they should drop it on is ADS. Most of the malware and other shit I've seen lately seems to be on shitty ads lurking in legit pages (e.g. you're on the download page for X but the ad has a download link which looks like the real one, but which actually installs Y)
Goat (Score:3)
Check out this super cute goat picture [tinyurl.com].
Browsers... (Score:1)
Shouldn't browsers be changed to not simply follow the redirect, but ask the user first?
Re: (Score:3)
For TinyURL, you can enable preview of the full URL here [tinyurl.com]. Uses a cookie, though.
Re: (Score:2)
Whatever. I despise shorteners, don't use them myself, and generally refuse to follow shortened URLs. Just bored and trying to be helpful.
what? pls explain? (Score:1)
As a rule... I don't clink on shortened URLs (Score:4, Insightful)
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What would be nice would be the ability to add an "expand" parameter at the end of the shortened URL and, instead of the redirect, have the shortened URL's hosting server show (only show) a clickable full URL.
Re: (Score:2)
I like TinyURL's preview.