Web-link shortening service Bitly has told users it believes its security has been breached and user credentials compromised. Writing in a blog post on the company's official site, chief executive ...

Bitly, the popular URL-shortening service has been in troubled waters for a few weeks now, and it again (at the time of writing) was non-functional for a few hours. Due to general issues with its ...

URL shortening can leave you seriously exposed according to a new research Getty Images If you think long URLs are difficult to distribute and so plan to post a URL in Bit.ly to shorten it, extreme ...

Mark Josphephson is the CEO of Bitly. Catch his talk at TNW Europe in Amsterdam this May alongside 130 other top-flight speakers. The year was 2011. Bitly was at a crossroads. Over the previous three ...

Google recently announced they will shut down their URL shortener, Goo.gl. Google will cease service for any new or anonymous users on April 13. Although existing users can continue to use the goo.gl ...

Once upon a time not very long ago, the link shortening business appeared to be the tech world’s next golden egg. Site’s like TinyURL and Bitly were able to build fully-realized business models by ...

Bitly users share hundreds of millions of links every month Web-link shortening service Bitly has warned that user account credentials may have been compromised. Bitly is used by millions of people to ...

Spammers have found a way to abuse a URL shortener service destined for U.S. government social media activities in order to craft rogue .gov URLs for work-at-home scams. Security researchers from ...