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News A browser request is first sent via a switch to a machine on the ISP network, which then redirects the user to the Phorm Webwise server to have an anonymised cookie attached to it, allowing Phorm to serve targeted ads to the user.
[18 Apr 2008]
whitepaper A "cookie" is a token, which stores information. The server side of your connection to a web server can place certain information in the cookie, then give the cookie to your browser. On some other page, the server can ask your browser for the...
[10 Apr 2008]
whitepaper In this case, it is nothing more than a small text file placed in the user's Internet Temporary Files folder, commonly called a "cookie". Often it is used to track surfing habits and sends this information back to the originator of the cookie.
[10 Apr 2008]
News A group of data-protection commissioners from across the EU found that computer web addresses and cookie monitoring amount to personal information that search services should do more to protect. Google has defended its policy of retaining data on...
[08 Apr 2008]
whitepaper Anglia Railways is the train passenger franchise serving eastern England and London. The challenge was to integrate a multitude of legacy ticketing and timetabling software with the website. Develop a system that would enable members from each...
[02 Apr 2008]
Comment Essentially, an attacker can use a malicious page to request information from another site using the user's active session cookie. The web is already the main target for security attacks. Now the functionality of dynamic web 2.0 applications is...
[26 Nov 2007]
whitepaper A cookie is just a name=value pair, much like the named parameters used in the CGI query string and discussed in CGI Programming. When a web server or CGI script wants to save some state information, it creates a cookie or two and sends them to the...
[25 Oct 2007]
whitepaper A cookie identifies a particular web client to the web server and to the PHP interpreter. Each time a web client makes a request, it sends the cookie along with the request. The interpreter reads the cookie and figures out that a particular request...
[17 Oct 2007]
whitepaper The reader will first learn the fundamentals of state, cookies, and sessions; then the paper discusses several concerns - cookie theft, exposed session data, session fixation, and session hijacking - along with practices that one can employ to...
[10 Oct 2007]
News Gatford said: "Once you've managed to snarf a cookie you can access [a user's] Gmail account without the password for the next two years. In the last year or so, [XSS vulnerabilities] have been used by attackers to grab cookie values and therefore...
[27 Sep 2007]
News is vowing to remove portions of IP addresses and personally identifiable cookie IDs within 13 months except when users want the data retained for longer or when the company is required to retain it for law enforcement or legal processes, said a...
[23 Jul 2007]
whitepaper This paper is an overview of how javascript can be used to bypass simple/advanced html forms and how it can be used to override cookie/session authentication. The author will not go into great detail about how the formSubmit function works.
[23 Jul 2007]
News A member of an influential EU privacy group has said it will meet to discuss whether Google has gone far enough in reducing the amount of time the Google cookie stays on computers. Alexander Dix, Berlin's security and privacy representative, said...
[19 Jul 2007]
whitepaper This paper also measured the randomness of the GS cookies and the effect of Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) on the placement of the master cookie. The Microsoft Visual Studio compiler supports a Buffer Security Check (GS) option to...
[20 Jun 2007]
whitepaper Sesame Street is the landmark educational show that introduced the world's children to Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch and Cookie Monster. Sesame Workshop required a solution for effectively mining and accessing content so that it could be repurposed...
[11 Apr 2007]
News Under the new policy, which it expects to have fully implemented by the end of the year, the company will make the final eight bits of the IP address and the cookie data anonymous after somewhere between 18 and 24 months, unless legally required...
[15 Mar 2007]
News The location.hostname vulnerability Schroepfer referred to was the Firefox cookie flaw discovered by Michal Zalewski, an "ethical hacker" from Poland. Mozilla has released updates to its Firefox browser and Thunderbird email client for Mac, Linux...
[26 Feb 2007]
News In addition, another Firefox flaw could let attackers change cookie files on the user's PC, he said. One is similar to the IE problem, while the other could let miscreants change cookie files stored on a PC running the vulnerable browser.
[19 Feb 2007]
News Ruscoe was able to prove he could have used code to steal a user's Google cookie and access their Google services. The second vulnerability, reported by Lensson, would also have enabled a hacker to use JavaScript code to pass cookie data to an...
[17 Jan 2007]
whitepaper This sample chapter from O'Reilly's PHP Cookbook shows how to program some of the building blocks of dynamic content with PHP, such as cookie handling, session tracking, authentication, error handling, browser detection, and more.
[18 May 2006]
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