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Third time unlucky: Another online blunder for Barclays
News They send a cookie to your PC confirming the details. That cookie has a life span. If you try to re-access the account within the valid timeframe of that cookie you won't need to... [11 Aug 2000]
New Outlook to give spammers the boot
News Outlook 2002, by default, blocks cookie files used to track the messages. Data such as image, sound and video files in HTML-formatted email is usually pulled from a web server in much the same way a web... [01 Nov 2002]
Web 2.0 threat looms
Comment Essentially, an attacker can use a malicious page to request information from another site using the user's active session cookie. Because it can allow attackers to run code in the user's browser, the... [26 Nov 2007]
Mac users get a night at the Opera
News The latest version of the browser boasts a cookie manager, an advanced favourites feature, multiple download monitor and key-chain support. Opera Software has released version 5.0 of its... [09 Jan 2002]
Microsoft plugs cookie hole in IE6
News The hole, discovered by Finnish security firm Online Solutions, enables someone to code a web page in such a way that they gain access to information held on a cookie. He said it was rare that users would have sensitive... [16 Nov 2001]
Spyware infiltrates the ad industry
News Clive Longbottom, an analyst at Quocirca, said: "A cookie on its own won't do it, but combined with spyware it is [dangerous]. Cookies are files used by legitimate websites to gather information about a user's activity... [04 May 2005]
Firefox update plugs cookie flaw
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... [26 Feb 2007]
Firefox open to exploit code attacks
News Thomas Kristensen, Secunia's chief technology officer, said: "If you visit a malicious website, it can steal cookie information from other websites you have previously visited. Two vulnerabilities in the popular Firefox... [10 May 2005]
IE Cookie Exploit #2, Revision: 1.6
White Paper This bug in Internet Explorer allows an attacker to, if he can convince the user's browser to load a given URL, steal their cookies for any given domain. It does not require that active scripting is enabled in the... [25 Feb 2004]
