Question

If you’re storing some personal information like Debit/Credit card numbers or Passwords etc, on different sites for running you’re E-business. Do you think that cookies are stored and maintain such information on the server-side and hackers can''t steal user''s information from these cookies easily? Do you agree with the above statement? Please give short comments in favor of or against the statement.

Answer 1

No, hackers can steal information from cookies. This many times depend on the type of cookies.

Cookies, by general definition, are programs embedded onto browsers which collect non-invasive information about our activities such so that it can adapt to our needs.

The type of information that a cookie collects depends on what type of cookie it is.

Session Cookies: These types of cookies only collect information about the movement of the user on the website such as pages visited, products that were examined (for e-commerce websites) and products/services that the user put in their cart.

These type of cookies are temporary and are deleted as soon as the browser is shut down.

Persistent Cookies:

These do the same thing that the Session cookies do only that they are more permanent and are stored in a text file even after the browser and the computer has been shut down.

It is these types of cookies that pose a threat. These type of cookies many store codes and passwords and log-in details which may be exploited by a hacker.

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