By Gregg Keizer, Jun 16, 2009
A URL-shortening service that condenses long Web addresses for use on micro-blogging sites like Twitter was hacked over the weekend, sending millions of users to an unintended destination, a security researcher said today. After Cligs, a rival to the better known TinyURL and bit.ly shortening services, was attacked Sunday, more than 2.2 million Web addresses were redirected to Kevin Saban's blog, which appears on the Orange County Register's Web site. Noticing a dramatic upswing in traffic, Saban -- who uses Cligs in his Twitter messages to shorten URLs -- contacted Pierre Far, the creator of Cligs. Twitter, by far the biggest micro-blogging site and user of short URLs, should be doing more to keep users safe, Graham Cluley, a senior technology consultant with security company Sophos said. "There's an option to expand the link view when you search Twitter," he said. "Why don't they offer that in the regular stream?"
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I have warned people of this many times before. Tiny urls are a hackers dream come true. It's the easiest way to trick twits and other fools into redirecting them to malware sites and the nefarious type are loving it. Like shooting fish in a barrel.
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