URL shortener

Pierluigi Paganini April 16, 2016
Watch out! URL shorteners could leak sensitive content

Two security researchers from Cornell Tech discovered that web URL shorteners operate in predictable way exposing sensitive data. The security researchers Vitaly Shmatikov and Martin Georgiev from Cornell Tech discovered that web URL shorteners operate in predictable way, and this could result in the disclosure of sensitive information. The duo analyzed the most popular URL shorteners, […]