Web Security Tips

The security risks of cookies are quite hard to fathom but for most of us who simply know them as the type you dunk in milk, loaded with chocolate chips, they really pose a big threat. They have been around for a long time and have allowed internet companies to gather personal information from us without us even knowing about it, these small bits of code that come with web pages often result in security leaks and other forms of espionage. They can make life easier by not having you type usernames and passwords to the several hundred or so sites you visit in a month’s browsing and they record your search preferences allowing a search engine to provide you with the most probable results that are in line with your searches.