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Cookies — A trick or treat for you?

There was a study done by the Berkman Center that said our kids are more likely to be hit by a car than be abducted by an online predator. The authors also reminded us that people worry about the safety of Halloween candy even though there has never been a documented case of candy being tainted (though I just met someone who told me a friend found tainted candy one Halloween).

My opinion is that even though on any given day the chance is very small that I will get in a car accident, so I still make sure that everyone in the car is buckled up before we drive and that I have responsible driving habits. I still check my kids Halloween candy. I still teach my family how to be safe online – kids and grandparents included!

Since Halloween is right around the corner and it is National Cyber Security Awareness Month I thought I would focus on “Cookies” – not the sweet stuff. Cookies are messages, or segment of data, containing information about a user, sent by a Web server to a browser and sent back to the server each time the browser requests a Web page. Kind of like Big Brother, right? (a reference to the novel by George Orwell, not the reality tv show)

So what

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  • Trick or Treat With Spam and Malicious Screensavers (October 29, 2009)

    I have previously blogged that some of the most common techniques scammers and cybercriminals use are news events and holidays. Balloon Boy and the Windows 7 Launch are good examples. My colleague Sam Masiello’s blog on President

  • More Trick than Treat (October 19, 2009)

    The most stressful thing about Halloween has always been deciding on a costume. Second place: making sure to have enough candy around for trick-or-treaters who may come a-knocking. All pretty straightforward stuff, right? This time around, though, it looks like

  • Tracking Cookies (July 28, 2010)

    Given the millions of threats that Symantec products block every day, you might find it interesting to know which detection consistently holds the top spot. No, it’s not a worm such as W32.Stuxnet, a virus like W32.Virut, or

  • Halloween's Coming: Trick or Tweet from the FTC (October 23, 2009)

    Update your security software often to protect your computer from zombie bots. Read more at OnGuardOnline.gov. Don't let old security software spook you. Keep firewall, anti-virus, and anti-spyware software updated, and visit OnGuardOnline. gov. Beware of online tricks this Halloween ...

  • Trick or Threat? (October 30, 2009)

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