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 ...

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.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — If you’re using Microsoft Outlook Express in Internet Explorer 5.0 for e-mail and you don’t disable the ActiveX Controls feature, someone could send you a message that could wipe ...

Hello.<BR><BR>Hopefully somebody can point me to the right direction on this.<BR><BR>On a Windows Server 2003, I run a web application that's accessed by two groups of people.<BR>An ASP page has some ...

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 ...

ActiveX has been a frequent subject of security-related criticism. Most recently, Microsoft included a fix in its April Patch Tuesday for a particularly severe ActiveX bug that could allow a remote ...

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 ...

Cisco is warning of a buffer overflow flaw in an ActiveX control used by the WebEx Meeting Manager. If exploited, hackers could execute arbitrary code on the user client machine. The WebEx Meeting ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the Internet Explorer 6 security settings, I've noticed that the options for running ActiveX controls and plug-ins include "Administrator approved", "Disable", "Enable" and "Prompt". Is there any ...