Are the cookies that reside in your computer necessary? Sometimes yes. Let's say you use the Internet Explorer browser to access the Web. Each time you download a page, your computer accesses a ...

Chances are you've gotten notifications from several websites asking for permission to give you cookies. Find out what that means. (Photo: Getty) It's pretty much inevitable now: You visit a website ...

Although it may sound as if the device has eaten a tasty treat, the cookies your computer takes in are actually small bits of data that have positive and negative effects on the machine when it ...

A cookie is a text string that is included with Hypertext Transfer Protocol requests and responses. Cookies are used to maintain information as you navigate different pages on a website or return to ...

Google’s approach to cookies shouldn’t come as a surprise. It’s been delaying the elimination of cookies for quite some time. This latest move is actually a very clever strategy. Instead of outright ...

Have you ever had the feeling your computer is watching you? That somehow it knows what you were looking at yesterday, or last year? And that rather than being your technological ‘friend’ it behaves ...

A security researcher has discovered a means of hijacking sensitive information from cookies in Internet Explorer. The ‘cookiejacking’ technique could expose credentials from Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, ...

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