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 ...

Microsoft Corp. today 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 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 the second time in a week, Microsoft Corp. is warning users that hackers are exploiting an unpatched, critical bug in a company-made ActiveX control, putting people running Internet Explorer at ...

Microsoft today issued a warning about an attack that is occurring in the wild against its Video ActiveX Control in Internet Explorer running on XP and Windows Server 2003. (Vista and Windows Server ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft 365 will start blocking ActiveX by default The “powerful” tool put users at risk of remote code execution Users won’t be able to create or interact with ActiveX objects Microsoft has ...

Microsoft on Monday pointed developers to two security guides to help companies create and use more secure software components after a number of critics took the company to task for common flaws in ...

The Windows Media Player 7/9 has a rich set of control functions that can be called from Javascript in the Web page. Calling these from Javascript is the same whether you're in Mozilla or Internet ...

A group of hackers is using the remote desktop ActiveX control in Word documents to automatically execute on Windows 10 a malware downloader called Ostap that was seen recently adopted by TrickBot for ...