Cookies. Such an innocent word has a lot of power behind it these days, and it’s not because of American obesity rates. In the world of the web, cookies (a.k.a. “browser cookies,” “HTTP cookies,” ...

They're everywhere, and they're reasonably confusing – so what the heck are internet cookies, and what do they actually do? THESE days, with every webpage comes an annoying message about cookies but ...

What you need to know about cookies and how to stay safe from "trackers" There are many good uses of HTTP cookies, but they can also carry codes that cyber criminals can exploit. Gulf News Highlights ...

Web browser cookies are a part of our every day Internet life. They help websites provide certain settings and memorize our passwords and preferences so we don’t have to do it. It’s also the perfect ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the business of personal data. It may raise hackles to think that U.S. intelligence officials might be monitoring ...

Big Brother has a new secret weapon, and he's using it to watch your every Internet move. Computer files called Flash cookies may have told him which websites you visited this morning, what purchases ...

The days of cookies surreptitiously tracking your every movement online could be coming to an end. A European law goes into effect this May that would require Web sites to get “explicit consent” from ...

Web cookies were originally designed to protect users privacy, according to the man behind the technology, not act as a tool to help large tech firms snoop on people. California-based engineer and ...

A little cocoa in the icing gives these spiderweb sugar cookies a little chocolate flavor. Grace Parisi a former senior test kitchen editor for Food & Wine, where she wrote several successful monthly ...