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  2. HTTP cookie - Wikipedia

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    A session cookie (also known as an in-memory cookie, transient cookie or non-persistent cookie) exists only in temporary memory while the user navigates a website. [22] Session cookies expire or are deleted when the user closes the web browser. [23] Session cookies are identified by the browser by the absence of an expiration date assigned to them.

  3. What are cookies exactly? Cybersecurity experts break it down

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    Cookies aren't inherently bad, Steinberg points out —but what companies do with the information they gather can be in some cases. Shop it: McAfee Multi Access, 30-day free trial then $9.99 a ...

  4. Enable cookies in your web browser - AOL Help

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    With cookies turned on, the next time you return to a website, it will remember things like your login info, your site preferences, or even items you placed in a virtual shopping cart! • Enable cookies in Firefox • Enable cookies in Chrome. By default, cookies are automatically enabled in Safari and Edge.

  5. When to delete cookies (and why) - AOL

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    Cookies are used by websites to tailor content to your personal preferences and by marketing companies to try to target ads directly to you, tech and cybersecurity expert Chuck Brooks, president ...

  6. How often should you delete cookies? The answer might ... - AOL

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    There are two types of cookies, Steinberg explains: "Session" cookies, which expire after you click off of a website and "persistent" cookies, which track you across several different sessions ...

  7. Session hijacking - Wikipedia

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    In computer science, session hijacking, sometimes also known as cookie hijacking, is the exploitation of a valid computer session—sometimes also called a session key—to gain unauthorized access to information or services in a computer system. In particular, it is used to refer to the theft of a magic cookie used to authenticate a user to a ...

  8. Secure cookie - Wikipedia

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    Secure cookie is a type of an HTTP cookie that has the Secure attribute set, which limits the scope of the cookie to "secure" channels (where "secure" is defined by the user agent, typically web browser). When a cookie has the Secure attribute, the user agent will include the cookie in an HTTP request only if the request is transmitted over a ...

  9. Blackboard Learn - Wikipedia

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    Blackboard Learn (previously the Blackboard Learning Management System) is a web-based virtual learning environment and learning management system developed by Blackboard Inc.