A cookie is a small bit of text that accompanies requests and pages as they move between Web servers and browsers. It contains information that is read by a Web application, whenever a user visits a site. Cookies are stored in the memory or hard disk of client computers. A Web site stores information, such as user preferences and settings in a cookie. This information helps in providing customized services to users. There is absolutely no way a Web server can access any private information about a user or his computer through cookies, unless a user provides the information. A Web server cannot access cookies created by other Web servers.

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Windows XP Users: Careful With That F1 Button!

Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a vulnerability in VBScript that is exposed on supported versions of Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 through the use

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Directory Traversal

Directory Traversal Overview Directory Traversal vulnerabilities occur once again when the user supplied input is not validated. You think we would get tired of saying this, but it appears this

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Online Services

Gathering information: (set) http://www.subnetonline.com/ (set) http://ping.eu/ (ping, dns_tools, traceroute, web_tools) http://serversniff.net/ (DIG / nslookup, whois, traceroute) http://networking.ringofsaturn.com/Tools/ (whois, dns_tools, service_scan, traceroute) http://centralops.net/co/DomainDossier.aspx (whois, dns_tools, domain_search) http://www.whois.ws/ (whois, dns_tools) http://www.robtex.com/ (whois)

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