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  • Microsoft ‘found to make requests’ to URLs shared via Skype

    HEAD requests likely used to determine landing page. Is Microsoft checking all the links you share via Skype ? German online magazine Heise thinks so. A reader of security magazine Heise discovered that all URLs sent via Skype chat received a request from an IP address that was registered with Microsoft (which bought Skype in…

  • Spammers exploit internationalized domain names

    Non-Latin characters in URLs used to trick filters. By using internationalized domain names (IDN), spammers manage to avoid detection of URLs in their messages. IDNs were introduced in 2003 and allow for domain names in non-Latin alphabets, such as Russian, Chinese and Arabic, as well as in Latin with diactitics. On top of that, last…

  • URL shorteners experience surge of popularity among spammers

    More than 2.2% of spam contains shortened URLs. URL shortening services have proven recently to be popular not just among microbloggers in need of shorter URLs, but also among spammers attempting to disguise the websites they are spamming. According to email filtering service MessageLabs , well over 2 per cent of current spam contains a…