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 ...

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 ...

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 trying to embed an ActiveX control into a web-page I am creating - create the Object etc etc all seems to be OKay, however when I run the web-page the control is not visible.<BR><BR>If I refresh ...