Spammers have created their own services to shorten URLs (uniform resource locators) in an apparent attempt to circumvent security measures in place at well-known shortening websites, according to ...

If you have a LinkedIn profile -- and I certainly hope you do -- you're going to want to let people know about it. You can do that easily by sharing the website address (URL) of your LinkedIn profile.

Most of us have clicked on a bit.ly or t.co link without a second thought, and these links are practically everywhere. These are known as link-shorteners, or URL-shorteners, and these services are ...