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, ...

Question: What is session fixation and how can I protect my users from it? Session fixation is a vulnerability caused by incorrectly handling user sessions in a Web application. A user’s session is ...

So from the perspective of the website, it just sees that it’s a valid cookie.” That’s the unvarnished warning from Trevor ...

We have already seen what an Internet Cookie is and the different types of Internet Cookies. While Cookies are required for the proper rendering of web pages, there are some cookies, which you may ...

Multi-factor authentication is a great way to keep cybercriminals at bay, but some are apparently getting pretty good at bypassing this type of protection by stealing application and browser session ...

Chandraveer, a seasoned mechanical design engineer turned tech reporter and reviewer, brings more than three years of rich experience in consumer tech journalism to the table, having contributed to ...

Practically every website you visit right now will ask if they can give you cookies. (Photo: Getty) Cookies are an inevitable part of being online. And, while websites giving you cookies is nothing ...

Every time you visit a website, you're asked to accept cookies. Most people click “I agree” without giving it a second thought. But those little pop-ups aren't just annoying; they also open doors to ...

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 ...