URL redirection flaw on NBC News website could be used by scammers to give links a false sense of added trust. This is in addition to ongoing abuse of MSNBC’s publicly available Bitly API key, which is being used in an active spam campaign. A single URL used in this scheme has gained more than 2,000 clicks, simply because it comes from an hxxp://on.msnbc.com address. As of 2:12 p.m. EST on 21 July 2014, Bitly has fixed the forwarding on the forward on the URL and changed it.”]

