ActiveX is a Microsoft software framework that enables applications to share data across web browsers, enhancing functionality and security in computing.

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 ...

Microsoft on Monday pointed developers to two security guides to help companies create and use more secure software components after a number of critics took the company to task for common flaws in ...

A wave of bugs in the plug-in technology used by Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) browser has some security experts, including those at US-CERT, recommending that users disable all ActiveX controls.

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers at Errata Security are offering a free tool for users that protects them from the wave of malicious ActiveX controls plaguing Internet Explorer browsers. Errata created the tool, called ...

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 ...

A new zero day critical bug in Windows has been widely reported. Let me summarize things briefly: The two vulnerable versions of Windows are XP and Server 2003. The safe versions of Windows (just from ...

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 ...