Update, Dec. 03, 2024: This story, originally published Dec. 02, now updated to reflect the 2FA-bypass security threat beyond Black Friday and Cyber Monday. The busiest period of online shopping, ...

At least four Virtual Private Network (VPN) applications sold or made available to enterprise customers share security flaws, warns the Carnegie Mellon University CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) ...

The California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA") was enacted in early 2018 as a political compromise to stave off a poorly drafted, and plaintiff’s friendly ballot ...

A new exploit threat lets hackers access your Google account using expired cookies that contain your login information. The exploits, which were discovered late last year, target session cookies, ...

Many of the tools that organizations are deploying to isolate Internet traffic from the internal network — such as multifactor authentication, zero-trust network access, SSO, and identity provider ...

When the malware group Lapsus$ needed to gain access to systems compromised in recent breaches, it not only searched for passwords but also for the session tokens — that is, cookies — used to ...

Malicious Chrome extensions posing as productivity tools were found stealing session tokens, blocking security controls, and ...

Security researchers have spotted a new information stealer that collects Chrome login data from infected victims, along with session cookies, and appears to be looking for Facebook details in ...

A Computer Cookie is a small data packet or a tiny file that websites store on a user’s computer. Normally, cookies are harmless. The aim of creating website cookies is to enhance the users’ internet ...

This article is excerpted from HTML5 Developer’s Cookbook and reprinted with permission of publisher Pearson/Addison-Wesley Professional. The persistence of information in the visitor’s browser has ...