Firefox extension Firesheep exposes Facebook, Twitter login information ... the program exploits a security flaw related to browser cookies. When a user signs into a website with a username ...

WTF?! EditThisCookie was a popular Chrome extension designed to edit cookie data stored in the browser's local database. Once used by over three million users, the extension has now been replaced ...

Enter Ninja Cookie, a browser extension that that automatically removes cookie banners by rejecting non-essential cookies. Yup, it's that simple. I hadn't realized how much time and effort I spent ...

But besides using misleading names to hijack and deceive other extensions' userbases, the two -- "AdBlock" by "AdBlock, Inc" and "uBlock" by "Charlie Lee" -- were also caught performing cookie ...

I'm talking about the overwhelmingly popular browser extension with the same name ... by capturing the last click and obtaining the beloved cookie that leads to the commission.

“Some of the other extensions like the 'Browse Securey' might traditionally require more permissions like 'webRequest' to block malicious sites, but things like access to 'cookies' are ...