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ALSO CALLED:
Cookie Files,
Transient Cookies,
Session Cookies
DEFINITION: A cookie is information that a Web site puts on your hard disk so that it can remember something about you at a later time. (More technically, it is information for future use that is stored by the server on the client side of a client/server communication.) Typically, a cookie records your preferences when using a particular site. Using the Web's Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), each request
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The Deloitte Consumer Review: A more secure customer
sponsored by ComputerWeekly.com
ESSENTIAL GUIDE:
This report from Deloitte assesses the impact of cybercrime on consumers and offers advice to businesses on how to respond.
Posted: 12 Mar 2013 | Published: 12 Mar 2013
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Session Hijacking: How to Protect Your Customers and Your Corporate Data
sponsored by Thawte Inc.
WHITE PAPER:
This whitepaper details the challenges of session hijacking – or sidejacking – and why it is becoming such a prominent issue today, especially with the adoption of social media. View now to uncover the implications of these detrimental attacks and learn how to truly keep your users and organization safe.
Posted: 06 Feb 2013 | Published: 30 Sep 2011
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COOKIES DEFINITION (continued): … for a Web page is independent of all other requests. For this reason, the Web page server has no memory of what pages it has sent to a user previously or anything about your previous visits. A cookie is a mechanism that allows the server to store its own information about a user on the user's own computer. You can view the cookies that have been stored on your hard disk (although the content stored in each cookie may not make much sense to you). The location of the cookies depends on the browser. Internet Explorer stores each cookie as a separate file under a Windows subdirectory. Netscape … Cookies definition sponsored by SearchSoftwareQuality.com, powered by WhatIs.com an online computer dictionary
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