Each time a computer visits a website, the site puts a cookie on the computer's hard disk. A cookie essentially gives information to the website, such as browsing history, personal preferences and ...

Google was caught last week bypassing default privacy settings in the Safari browser in order to serve up tracking cookies. The company claimed the situation was an accident and limited only to the ...

REDMOND, Wash., March 21, 2001 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the specifics for privacy tools it will deliver in the next version of its popular Web browser software, Microsoft® Internet Explorer 6 ...

You may have used the Disk Cleanup utility to delete your browsing history, cache and cookies. Alternatively, you may have used the Delete Browsing History via IE ...

I know in IE that the cookies are stored in the \cookies\ directory and that the cookies in the \temporary internet files\ directory are pointers to them. What I would like to know is why my \cookies\ ...

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A vulnerability has been found in Microsoft's Internet Explorer that exposes cookies used by many major Web sites to track user information and traffic, according to Peacefire.org. The vulnerability ...

(CBS) - According to Reuters, security researcher Rosario Valotta discovered hackers can steal victims' online credentials by taking the session cookies from sites the victim is visiting. She calls ...

Google was caught last week bypassing default privacy settings in the Safari browser in order to serve up tracking cookies. The company claimed the situation was an accident and limited only to the ...