The exploitation of ActiveX controls is not new to the security community. While initially designed to provide website authors with new embeddable features, and granting Internet Explorer (IE) users ...

The ActiveX control for the Snapshot Viewer for Microsoft Access enables users to view an Access report snapshot without requiring the use of a standard version of ...

Internet Explorer users running Windows 95 may be open to a whole new range of Net-hosted attacks. A demonstration of a potentially lethal interaction between software components, detailed on our ...

Every time I click to a new page on the OpenForum, I get a prompt asking if I want to allow ActiveX controls and plugins to run.<BR>(Win2K Pro SP4, IE6.01 with all updates)<BR><BR>Now I have custom ...

Microsoft said that it would lock down other vendors' vulnerable ActiveX controls if the vendor requests the help and the software is delivered via Windows Update Microsoft said on Tuesday it would ...

For years, many security consultants and well-meaning guidelines have recommended completely disabling ActiveX in Internet browsers (mainly Internet Explorer) to prevent a particular type of Web ...

A recent string of high-profile ActiveX vulnerabilities caused the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) to advise users to disable the ubiquitous Microsoft browser plug-in technology ...

An easy-to-use toolkit used to hack computers has now been updated to take advantage of an unpatched security vulnerability in Microsoft's software An easy-to-use toolkit used to hack computers has ...

However, the ActiveX vulnerabilities -- one in McAfee Security Center, a management interface for its antivirus and antispam software, the other in Symantec's Norton Antivirus product -- don't appear ...

Research In Motion Ltd. has patched a piece of software for Windows PCs that could leave them vulnerable to attack when loading new applications onto BlackBerry devices. The flaw lies in an ActiveX ...