Cookies — A trick or treat for you?
- Wednesday, October 28, 2009, 17:35
- Threat Research
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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 does this mean to you and me? Well, it means that every time I go to Amazon, it says “Hi Tracy” and shows me content
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