HTTP cookies (also called web cookies, Internet cookies, browser cookies, or simply cookies) are small blocks of data created by a web server while a...

Secure cookie is a type of an HTTP cookie that has the Secure attribute set, which limits the scope of the cookie to "secure" channels (where "secure"...

so they implement states, or server side sessions, using for instance HTTP cookies or hidden variables within web forms. To start an application user session...

access to the saved cookies on the victim's computer (see HTTP cookie theft). After successfully stealing appropriate session cookies an adversary might...

computing, a magic cookie, or just cookie for short, is a token or short packet of data passed between communicating programs. The cookie is often used to...

against man-in-the-middle attacks such as protocol downgrade attacks and cookie hijacking. It allows web servers to declare that web browsers (or other...

over HTTPS while the rest of the site is loaded over plain HTTP, the user will be vulnerable to attacks and surveillance. Additionally, cookies on a site...

include an HTTP cookie which identifies state, such as a unique session ID, information about the user's preferences or authorization level. HTTP/1.0 was...

Third-party cookies are HTTP cookies which are used principally for web tracking as part of the web advertising ecosystem. While HTTP cookies are normally...

semantic equivalence only. ETags can be used to track unique users, as HTTP cookies are increasingly being deleted by privacy-aware users. In July 2011,...