1 Cookies are small text files used by websites to store information about you – but you can block them from being created, and delete them at any time Credit: Alamy What is a cookie?

Clearing SFGate-related browser cookies and cached files (and then restarting your broswer) can sometimes take care of display or login problems with SFGate. Here's how to do that.

Firefox puts website-tracking cookies in a "cookie jar" to fence them in exclusively to the site that dropped the cookie.

Cookies, the small data files placed on an Internet user's computer when visiting websites, are primarily used to identify visitors for the purpose of customizing content such as advertising.

PayPal has filed a patent application for a novel method that can identify when "super-cookie" is stolen, which could improve the cookie-based authentication mechanism and limit account takeover ...

Hackers are creating backdoor accounts and cookie files on WordPress sites running OneTone Attacks began earlier this month after WordPress theme developer did not release a patch for a trivial bug.