It is very likely that more than once you have accepted a few computer cookies without being completely clear about what they are or what they are for exactly since many people usually browse the web without knowing or the risks that these Cookies represent.
To better understand it, we talk about this message: “Cookies allow us to offer our services. By using our services, you accept our use of cookies.”
Types of Cookies
One of the most basic characteristics that is useful to know is that there are two types of cookies: temporary and permanent. The first (or session), are maintained for the period in which the computer is used and disappear when the session is closed.
On the other hand, there are the second or permanent ones, as their name says, they remain on the computer for several sessions according to their characteristics or until they are manually eliminated by the user, as in the case of data personalization, where an example It may be the one of those cookies that allow to give meteorological information of the city in which the user is, without the need to update said data each time it is accessed.
But there are other called ThirdPartyCookies that are created by some websites, in order to track online behavior for commercial and advertising purposes, information that can then be used by advertisers to offer users, articles and services according to browsing preferences.
Although in themselves they should not present any risk to our team, they can take advantage of certain elements to promote an attack, as he discovered in 2011 expert on the subject Rosario Valotta. According to the discovery of this Italian researcher, a vulnerability in Internet Explorer allowed a man-in-the browser attack on users who, without knowing it, shared their cookies.
Protect Yourself
In order for the user to protect themselves from these attacks, although they are not very common, some measures recommended by these security experts can be taken, among which are:
▸Modify browser settings
Access the privacy settings of your browser and configure its options so that you can have full control over the information that cookies track
▸Protect yourself
This means that it is necessary to have a good security solution installed, it is the last defense against any attack and will allow us to have control of our privacy.
▸Clean or delete cookies
Of course the simplest option would be to delete the browsing history and cookies at the end of the session so as not to have to think about this.
▸Use the Add-Ons
Using this browser tool we will be able to manage cookies in a more specific way and even activate only those with which we want to share our information online.
