If you daily send a lot of links to your friends / Twitter followers it’s very likely that you’ve started using a URL shortener. It’s fast, easy and so web 2.0 to send a shortened URL, you can’t deny ...

You get a text alerting you to that fact that you’ve apparently won money, and it comes with a bit.ly link. How can you prove it’s a scam? Scammers are getting smarter, and that’s bad news for all of ...

Over the weekend, numerous users noticed that Google was blocking them from accessing websites behind Bit.ly shortened links because they presumably contained malware. The situation has now been ...