Month: January 2014

  • A new form of Comment spam? – url shorteners and redirection?

    This is interesting. This blog just had a comment which, at first glance, looked normal. The link first runs through URL shortening service tinyurl.com. That in turn redirects it to adfly (http://adf.ly) which is where it becomes interesting. Adfly is an advertising system. Instead of linking directly to the destination, you link with a custom…