Cookies and Security – How much is enough?

Cookies is one of the ways the web has evolved into a more secure place though it is quite archaic today, it was the foundation of the web during the rise in popularity of the entity we call the internet. Many people these cookies can be useful such as the ability to have pre-set passwords and personal information filled in when verification is needed by a page and many more but with rising concern on privacy and other security issues that have arisen from downloaded payload of malicious attacks by malware, people tend to delete them for security’s sake. Government’s have been using them to validate people who access their sites and it is used by search giants such as Google for its analytics system that tracks the number of visits a site gets from the internet may they be returning visitors or new hits to come up with a graphical picture of the usability of a page. Read the rest of this entry »