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Researchers Reveal Security Vulnerabilities in Tracking Apps

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Sean Michael Kerner
Aug 15, 2018

Millions of users around the world regularly install tracker apps on their Android devices to help them keep track of friends and loved ones. Some of those tracker apps, however, contain vulnerabilities that could potentially enable an attacker to track the users of the apps.

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Sean Michael Kerner

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