This is a practical tutorial that was presented at Rochester Institute of Tehcnology – Dubai, AI Talks Series, Apr 20th, 2026.
Prepared and presented by Prof. Mohammed M. Alani.
The tutorial is all contained within a single Jupyter Notebook file named ids-tutorial.ipynb. The file includes simple explanation of the requirements, code, and dataset.
https://github.com/Mo-Alani/ai-talks-ids-tutorial
I have put together a super simple tool to extract the last URL from a redirecting URL. Threat actors utilize redirections to deliver malicious payloads or hide phishing URLs. In some scenarios, the attackers would use URL shortening tools (such as bit.ly) to bypass detection algorithms in emails, SMS messages, or on web pages.
The tool is not available on my github page on this link:
https://github.com/Mo-Alani/last-url
It can be used in the command line to show the last URL as shown in this example:
python last-url.py https://tinyurl.com/285mdnbr
Or to show the whole history of redirections (if the link redirects more than once):
python last-url.py -h https://tinyurl.com/285mdnbr
If the URL contains “&” sign, you’ll need to put the URL in quotations
python last-url.py -h "https://tinyurl.com/285mdnbr"
Let me know in the comments if you face any trouble using the tool, or you have suggestions for improvements.