About Cookies and Account Security

What is Cookies? Cookies are small data stored by your browser provided by the origin web server which will then be sent back to the web server by the browser when you access the website again. It could also be a marker of login account on a website. Could also be a recognition of our machine, eg operating system, browser, etc.. That's why some websites we can recognize the device.

Then what is the problem of security about these cookies? Session hijacking can occur if someone can get cookies from an account. Say a Facebook account, if the cookies we can be known or stolen by others, then we can easily hijack the account. Although cookies have the validation of the time but still dangerous if we are not able to safeguard and secure the well.

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