Cookie

Information technology - cybersecurity.

A cookie is a packet of data sent by an internet server to a browser, which is returned by the browser each time it subsequently accesses the same server.

It is used to identify the user or track their access to the server.

See also

• Cyber attack
• Cybersecurity
• Hypertext Transfer Protocol, Secure (https)
• Information technology
• Session cookie
• Sidejacking