Microsoft Warns About Malicious Cookie Use

Users of Microsoft's browser and e-mail programs could be vulnerable to having their browser cookies stolen or modified due to a new security bug in Internet Explorer (IE), the company warned. According to a bulletin, a flaw in the latest versions of IE could enable a malicious Web site or e-mail message to read or alter the contents of a user's browser cookies, the small data files used by many Web sites to store information on a visitor's system.