Microsoft Office has supported ActiveX for years as an option for extending and automating documents, but it has also been a significant security vulnerability. Microsoft is finally starting to turn ...

Microsoft has twisted the knife into ActiveX once again, setting Microsoft 365 to disable all controls without so much as a prompt.… The change replaces the previous default setting, "Prompt me before ...

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 ...

A group of security experts publishes a report filled with tips on how individuals and organizations can reduce security risks in Microsoft's Internet Explorer when using ActiveX controls. A group of ...

In context: Microsoft introduced ActiveX in 1996 during Windows 95 days. So, in technological terms, it's ancient. Redmond designed it as a developer framework, allowing users to embed interactive ...

This recent news story touches on a long-standing problem: Attackers zero in on Yahoo Jukebox’s ActiveX flaw | InfoWorld | News | 2008-02-06 | By Robert McMillan, IDG News Service The fact is, writing ...

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 ...

These ActiveX controls are not all done by my company. Our resellers can (and usually do) provide them to their customers to add functionality to our product (as a profit vehicle). Since it is a major ...