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JimLeary
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Aug 06, 2021
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Risk of cookies, trackers; Should clearing cache be part of IR.

DShield's Aug 5th, '21 article mentions cookies on a phishing page. It made me think if they should be considered for incident response. Example, defender alerts a user clicked a link. Proxy logs sho...
  • Reza_Ameri's avatar
    Aug 06, 2021
    Cookies have limit functionality, like they won't be able to inject code or harm your system. They will be able to track like your activity in the website and also in case there is a third-party cookie, in other websites they could keep track.
    You don't have to concern about delete and removing Cookies.
    The best strategy would be managing Cookies.
    You could do it easily in Microsoft Edge using Group Policy, take a look at:
    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-policies

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