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 ...

Activity spotted by an eWeek reporter on at least two "gray-hat" vulnerability research sites appears to indicate that an exploit for a weakness in one of Microsoft's Multimedia ActiveX controls ...

In order to avoid infringing on a controversial patent that it has been struggling to battle in court, Microsoft has decided to change the way Internet Explorer loads embedded ActiveX controls. An ...

Microsoft published a warning about the upcoming change in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center (MC884011, via @ teroalhonen on X): Starting in new Office 2024, the default configuration setting for ActiveX ...

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 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 ...