Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. When Google acknowledges a serious vulnerability in its software and ...

Cookies are small amounts of data sent from a website to a computer. In Windows, most cookies are stored as text files in the logged-on user's Temporary Internet Files folder. Websites use the encoded ...

Flash applications store their own Flash cookies which are entirely separate from normal cookies. They can be used to see what sites you’ve visited even if you’ve deleted all your history and normal ...

Yesterday's release of build 17672 may not have been tremendously exciting in terms of new features - especially after the feature-packed build 17666 - but the list of improvements included one ...

Why it matters: Firefox's Total Cookie Protection feature stops websites and third parties from collecting information and tracking your activity across sites you've visited. A new update rolling out ...

A Computer Cookie is a small data packet or a tiny file that websites store on a user’s computer. Normally, cookies are harmless. The aim of creating website cookies is to enhance the users’ internet ...

You can configure Google Chrome to automatically clear cookies after each of your browsing sessions. Doing this will help protect your privacy and security. This article will show you how to adjust ...

Mozilla released Firefox 91 on Tuesday, with a pair of new privacy features and one offering increased Windows integration. When users use a private window in Firefox, the connection to the requested ...

Google just started testing a new tracking system that will display ads based on your web browsing history. The buzzwords for this are interest-based advertising, behavioral targeting and online ...