Last month, Microsoft posted a security advisory that detailed "active, targeted attacks leveraging a potential vulnerability in the ActiveX control for the Snapshot Viewer for Microsoft Access." The ...

Research in Motion (RIM) today raised an alarm for a serious security vulnerability in the BlackBerry Application Web Loader, warning that it exposes Windows users to code execution attacks. When a ...

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 ...

ActiveX vulnerabilities have posed a security challenge for some time, and they're likely to be a challenge for quite some time to come. Look at examples such as Microsoft's patches this summer, which ...

Crooks are going after a new security flaw involving the Microsoft Video ActiveX Control in Windows XP and Server 2003, Microsoft today announced. Redmond’s Security Advisory 972890 details the new ...

We fully realize we are preaching to the choir, but never open up unsolicited and/or unexpected email attachments. Remind your friends and remind your family members. Lest anyone need a reminder of ...

The cyber attacks by North Korea earlier this year raised questions about South Korea's web security. North Korea was able to successfully infiltrate malicious codes into computers by taking advantage ...

The maturing of Web standards has fueled a wave of innovation in browser technology. It's injecting life into a stagnated market, to the benefit of Web users everywhere and on every platform. Powerful ...

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 ...