Cookie

Cookie

Pequeña cantidad de información que se le manda al navegador del cliente y que permite que éste quede identificado en conexiones sucesivas.

(en) Cookie

A character string, placed in a web browser’s memory, which is available to websites within the same Internet domain as the server that placed them in the web browser.

Cookies are used for many purposes and may be assertions or may contain pointers to assertions.

[NIST-SP800-63:2013]

(en) cookie

Data exchanged between an HTTP server and a browser (a client of the server) to store state information on the client side and retrieve it later for server use. [CNSSI_4009:2010]

(en) cookie

1. (I) /HTTP/ Data exchanged between an HTTP server and a browser (a client of the server) to store state information on the client side and retrieve it later for server use.

2. (I) /IPsec/ Data objects exchanged by ISAKMP to prevent certain denial-of-service attacks during the establishment of a security association.

[RFC4949:2007]

(en) Cookie

A file transmitted to a users browser to uniquely identify the users browser.

http://iab.com/

(en) Session Cookies

Temporary cookies which are only loaded for the active browser session and erased upon exiting the browser.

http://iab.com/

(en) Persistent Cookie

A cookie that does not automatically gets erased and remains on the users system even after the user disconnects.

http://iab.com/

(en) Cookie

Small amount of data sent by the web server, to a web client, which can be stored and retrieved at a later time. Typically cookies are used to keep track of a users state as they traverse a web site. See also Cookie Manipulation.

http://www.webappsec.org/projects/glossary/

(en) Cookie manipulation

Altering or modification of cookie values, on the clients web browser, to exploit security issues within a web application. Attackers will normally manipulate cookie values to fraudulently authenticate themselves to a web site. This is an example of the problem of trusting the user to provide reasonable input.

http://www.webappsec.org/projects/glossary/

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