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 ...

Microsoft Wednesday issued “kill bit” updates for ActiveX controls from HP and a Washington state developer, the third time it’s disabled third-party add-ons in the last four months. One security ...

Microsoft is investigating reports of a vulnerability in a Windows ActiveX control that could allow an attacker to remotely take control of a computer, according to an advisory issued Friday. One ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Maybe I was misled, but I thought one of the advantages of ActiveX controls was that it could automatically detect new versions from the codebase and prompt the user to update. But now I cannot seem ...

I'm working on an image aquisition and processing program. It's supposed to have the user interface written in VB, and do all the real work in C. There is already a DLL written that does all the low ...