It may raise hackles to think that U.S. intelligence officials might be monitoring your telephone and Internet communications, but for most of us it's only the marketers who are really interested in ...

Web browser cookies are a part of our every day Internet life. They help websites provide certain settings and memorize our passwords and preferences so we don’t have to do it. It’s also the perfect ...

In addition to having multimedia and other rich content, Web sites are becoming a lot more interactive and have areas where people can sign in to user accounts for access to settings, discussion ...

The European Parliament's decision on Wednesday not to clamp down on the use of Web cookies is a wake-up call for the online industry, according to insiders. Elements within the EU political scene ...

Thanks to the humble cookie, our favorite websites can remember us, greeting our return visits like a conscientious barista. But it’s through these small files that some egregious privacy abuses have ...

Attention, webmasters: Insecure website cookies set via HTTP requests may allow a remote attacker to obtain private information from a victim's HTTPS session, warns DHS-CERT. The problem is this: A ...

WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency is secretly piggybacking on tools that enable Internet advertisers to track consumers, using “cookies” and location data to pinpoint targets for government ...

Cookie-gated PHP web shells enable persistent Linux RCE via cron-based re-creation, reducing detection in routine traffic ...