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How to Get Your Web Site Ready for Microsoft’s New P3P Cookie Filtering Browser
White Paper Are you aware that Microsoft has started to release its new browser, Internet Explorer (IE 6), which incorporates an implementation of the P3P privacy platform? This step could significantly affect your Web site’s ability to set cookies to... [24 Feb 2004]
About Cookies ...
White Paper 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 cookie, and retrieve the information previously stored. [10 Apr 2008]
Web, Graphics, and Perl/Tk: Cookies
White Paper When a web server or CGI script wants to save some state information, it creates a cookie or two and sends them to the browser inside the HTTP header. A cookie is just a name=value pair, much like the named parameters used in the CGI query string... [25 Oct 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Cookies
Cheat Sheet A browser like IE can be set up to allow you to reject a cookie every time one wants to be sent. So tell us, what is a cookie then? A cookie is information that any website can put on your PC's hard disk so it can remember something about you at a... [29 Nov 2001]
DoubleClick Opt Out Protocol Failure == Opt In
White Paper Following what the DoubleClick server claimed to be a successful opt out, we noticed that the next fetch from a tracked resource would initiate the process of injecting a unique tracking cookie into the browser even though a truly successful opt... [24 Feb 2004]
Security experts criticise Phorm
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]
More flaws: Bugs hit Firefox, IE
News One is similar to the IE problem, while the other could let miscreants change cookie files stored on a PC running the vulnerable browser. In addition, another Firefox flaw could let attackers change cookie files on the user's PC, he said. [19 Feb 2007]
EU may push Google further on privacy
News Dix said that Google renewing the cookie every time a person used either Google or a site using Google applications, such as Google Analytics, was not a major privacy concern, as users could control cookies by configuring their browser. [19 Jul 2007]
EFF's Top 12 Ways to Protect Your Online Privacy
White Paper Do not reveal personal information inadvertently; Turn on cookie notices in your Web browser, and/or use cookie management software or infomediaries, Keep a "clean" e-mail address, Don't reveal personal details to strangers or just-met "friends... [16 Dec 2004]
PCFriendly Enables DVD Backchannels
White Paper The system is designed to identify users persistently, without using an HTTP cookie, thus bypassing any privacy-enhancing technologies like cookie management software or browser configurations. Numerous DVD titles from major movie producers between... [24 Feb 2004]
The Semantic Web as a Semantic Soup
White Paper The proposed technique, dubbed Semantic Cookies, will be implemented by storing a user's RDF in a cookie on their own computer through the browser. The Semantic Web is currently best known for adding metadata to web pages to allow computers to... [23 Feb 2006]
Header Based Exploitation: Web Statistical Software Threats
White Paper It explains how modification of HTTP headers can cause possible system access, cookie theft/poisoning, tricked advertising, database injection, and other bad things in web statistical software. When people visit your website, certain information is... [24 Feb 2004]
Google has data-retention change of heart
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]
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 re-enter your details. [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 browser grabs such data. [01 Nov 2002]
