Back in May I wrote "Dirty URL Tricks" about the increasing risk presented by the rise of URL shortening services like Bit.ly and TinyURL, driven largely by short messaging services like Twitter. I closed the article by predicting that scammers were going to start aggressively exploiting these services as a means of masking their malicious URLs.
Judging by the dramatic spike in URL shortening service usage by spammers and phishers the following month, I'd say that the entire scamming community must be reading my blog. However, since I'm quite in tune with the number of readers I have, and I'm fairly...