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Friday, October 05, 2012

Tumblr users are being scammed by profile stalking app

One popular security risk app type on Facebook over the years has been the 'profile tracker' which promises to reveal who has been looking at your profile recently. Of course, no app can do any such thing, but that doesn't stop people falling for the scam every time such an app is released. And it doesn't stop those people from being at risk of malware infection or account hijack either. As users of the popular social media micro-blogging service Tumblr are now discovering for themselves.
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Co-founder of IT Security Thing Ltd, Davey Winder is a three time winner of the Information Security Journalist of the Year award (2006/2008/2010) and received the prestigious Enigma Award for his lifetime contribution to information security journalism in 2011.



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