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GitHub's new privacy policy sparks backlash over tracking cookies

Bleeping Computer

Developers are furious at GitHub's upcoming privacy policy changes that would allow GitHub to place tracking cookies on some of its subdomains. The Microsoft subsidiary announced this month, it would be adding "non-essential cookies" on some marketing web pages starting in September, and offered a 30-day "comment period." [.].

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TikTok Fined 5 Million Euros for Cookie Policies

SecureWorld News

The uber popular short-form video sharing platform has been fined 5 million euros for its cookie policies, and no, we're not talking about chocolate chip or oatmeal raisin. Several clicks were required to refuse all cookies, as opposed to just one to accept them. TikTok Denies Claims of Massive Data Breach.

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Case Study: The Cookie Privacy Monster in Big Global Retail

The Hacker News

Explore how an advanced exposure management solution saved a major retail industry client from ending up on the naughty step due to a misconfiguration in its cookie management policy.

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Hackers Steal Session Cookies to Bypass Multi-factor Authentication

eSecurity Planet

One new tactic hackers have been using is to steal cookies from current or recent web sessions to bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA). The “cookie-stealing cybercrime spectrum” is broad, the researchers wrote, ranging from “entry-level criminals” to advanced adversaries, using various techniques.

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Promiscuous Cookies and Their Impending Death via the SameSite Policy

Troy Hunt

Cookies like to get around. I mean have a think about it: If a website sets a cookie then you click a link to another page on that same site, will the cookie be automatically sent with the request? What if an attacker sends you a link to that same website in a malicious email and you click that link, will the cookie be sent?

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New Ways to Track Internet Browsing

Schneier on Security

Interesting research on web tracking: " Who Left Open the Cookie Jar? A Comprehensive Evaluation of Third-Party Cookie Policies : Abstract : Nowadays, cookies are the most prominent mechanism to identify and authenticate users on the Internet.

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Preventing CSRF Attacks

Veracode Security

Set cookies with the SameSite Attribute. Cookies are a way to add persistent state to websites. To address this, cookies contain a number of attributes that govern their behavior. The SameSite attribute allows you to declare if your cookie should be restricted to a first-party or same-site context. However, it???s