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IE users beware: Zero-day attacks hit Microsoft Video ActiveX Control

IE users beware: Zero-day attacks hit Microsoft Video ActiveX ControlZero day attacksAgain and again and again. Will Windows ever be secure? In this case apparently just moving over to Firefox would help, but that was not recommended in the article.How soon before the fake Fix-It websites spring up?MS...

Tags: Web browsers, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., ActiveX Control, Microsoft Video, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, zero-day bug, Microsoft Video ActiveX Control, Mozi

Discussion threads 2009-07-06

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February 2013 - The date when Firefox could pass Internet Explorer

RE: February 2013 - The date when Firefox could pass Internet ExplorerThat does assume that everything remains constant, which it won't. If someone creates a new browser that could disrupt it, or when either company releases a new version of their browser that is also going to throw things...

Tags: Web browsers, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

Microsoft to ship emergency IE, Visual Studio patches

Less than a month after a first pass at patching a troublesome flaw affecting its dominant Internet Explorer browser, Microsoft has announced plans to release two emergency updates with a comprehensive fix for the problem. The unusual move comes on the heels of...

Tags: Microsoft Visual Studio, Patch Management, ActiveX Control, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Web Browsers, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Internet, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-07-27

MS Patch Tuesday: 9 bulletins, 6 rated critical

Microsoft today released six bulletins with fixes for at least nine documented security vulnerabilities in a range of products that put users at risk of malicious hacker attacks. At least two of the vulnerabilities are currently being attacked in the wild so it's imperative that Windows users...

Tags: Vulnerability, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-07-14

Two ActiveX vulnerabilities make IE a toxic choice

Last week Microsoft issued a security advisory warning of an ActiveX vulnerability relating to a video control. There's no patch in sight. Today we get another advisory relating to another ActiveX control, this time used to display Excel spreadsheets. Since tomorrow is Patch Tuesday, we're not going to see a...

Tags: Vulnerability, Microsoft Internet Explorer, ActiveX, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Security, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2009-07-13

ImageShack hacked by anti-full disclosure movement

During the weekend, ImageShack, among the Web's top ten most popular free image hosting services got compromised, with the millions of images hosted on it redirected to a single one explaining why it was hacked. The anti-sec group responsible for the compromise describes itself as a "movement...

Tags: Web, Malware, Exploit, Zero-day Bug, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Channel Management, Cyberthreats, Security, Viruses And Worms, Marketing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-07-13

News to know: Google Books, Yahoo's Search Pad; CrunchPad; 99-cent netbook; Psystar; SAP war chest

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Richard Koman: DOJ confirms Google Books investigation Sam Diaz: Can Yahoo steal the search throne from Google with Search...

Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo Search, Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, Yahoo! Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, SAP AG, Apple Inc., Video, Psystar, Sam Diaz, Netbook, Corporate Communications, Projectors, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Open Source, Marketing, Hardware, Components

Blog posts 2009-07-07

IE users beware: Zero-day attacks hit Microsoft Video ActiveX Control

Malicious hackers are launching code execution exploits against new, unpatched vulnerability in the Microsoft Video ActiveX Control, the company warned in an advisory. The attacks are currently targeting users of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser.  "An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the same user rights...

Tags: ActiveX Control, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Zero-day Bug, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Web Browsers, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Internet, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-07-06

Windows 7 RC ready for public download

Windows 7 RC ready for public downloadIt's the most highly anticipated OSIt's the most highly anticipated OS so it had to happen. However downloads aren't being interrupted :)RE: Windows 7 RC ready for public downloadI'm downloading now and I seem to be getting near my max speeds on a 7megs...

Tags: Operating systems, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Microsoft Windows 7, public download, Windows 7 RC, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-05-05

News to know: More Kindle, Intel, IT Talent, Google energy

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily .  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage Christopher Dawson: Kindle 2.0: Give me a Classmate instead Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Kindle 2 - It is what it...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Dana Blankenhorn, Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Intel Corp., Tablets, Notebooks, Smart Phones, Security, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Blog posts 2009-02-11

Firefox tops list of 12 most vulnerable apps

Mozilla's flagship Firefox browser has earned the dubious title of the most vulnerable software program running on the Windows platform. According to application whitelisting vendor Bit9, Firefox topped the list of 12 widely deployed desktop applications that suffered through critical security vulnerabilities in 2008.  These flaws exposed...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Attacker, Vulnerability, JRE, Arbitrary Code Execution, Buffer-overflow, Security, Viruses And Worms, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-12-15

WBHost ActiveX Control 1.0 (Windows)

WBHost is an ActiveX control serving as a wrapper for the Microsoft WebBrowser control. WBHost inherits all events, properties and methods of the WebBrowser control and adds its own. It implements the methods of the IDocHostUIHandler, IDocHostUIHandler2 and IDocHostShowUI interfaces. Each method of these COM interfaces generates a certain event...

Tags: HTML, Microsoft Windows, HTML Page, Reversoft, WBHost

Software downloads 2008-11-20

Video/Audio Broadcaster ActiveX Control 2.0 (Windows)

Delivers live audio and video content in real time to client computers. Users can view your content with Microsoft Windows Media Player or Microsoft Windows Media Player ActiveX Control. Push live audio and video data to a publishing point on a Windows Media server. Retrieves information, including the IP address,...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Media Player, Audio, Borland Delphi, Microsoft Visual Basic, ActiveX Control, Video, Viscom Software, Microsoft Windows, Corporate Communications, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Programming Languages, Microsoft Development Tools, Digital Music, Development Tools, Digital Media, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2008-10-02

First look at Google Chrome

First look at Google ChromeDownloaded and took a look at chromeAnd was immediately struck by just how much annoying advertising crap ZDNet puts on their site.Inadvertently? I vote on purpose.Inadvertently? I vote on purpose. I'd believe "inadvertently" if Chrome were released a month later - but a [b]day[/b] later? No,...

Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Google Chrome, First Look, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-09-02

Microsoft investigating NSlookup.exe flaw, reported attacks

Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a zero-day Windows vulnerability that's being exploited in the wild. According to a this SecurityFocus alert, the attacks are exploiting a remote code-execution vulnerability due to an unspecified error in NSlookup.exe, the command-line administrative tool used for testing and troubleshooting...

Tags: Vulnerability, Microsoft Corp., Attack, Flaw, Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2, Access Snapshot Viewer, Security, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Microsoft Windows, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Operating Systems, Software, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-08-15

ActiveX control bug bites Creative Labs AutoUpdate engine

A high-severity security flaw in the Creative Software automatic update engine could put Windows computers at risk of remote code execution attacks, according to a warning from the US-CERT Computer Emergency Readiness Team. The vulnerability affects the software used to provide updates to Creative Labs' audio/video entertainment product line,...

Tags: Webcam, Zen, Automatic Update, Blaster Worm, ActiveX Control, Creative Labs Inc., ActiveX Control Bug, Create Software AutoUpdate Engine ActiveX Control, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Patches, Viruses And Worms, Security, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-05-30

Wayback Machine: Microsoft's shot to kill Quicktime video

Ten years ago, give a week or so, Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced QuickTime 3.0 to the National Association of Broadcasters' convention. Behind the scenes in the months before the introduction, Microsoft was playing hardball with hardware and software vendors over its new A/V APIs along with demands to kill...

Tags: Apple Inc., Apple QuickTime, Compaq Computer Corp., Consumer Electronics, David Morgenstern, Digital Media, Digital Music, Microsoft Corp., Personal Technology, Software, Video

Blog posts 2008-04-03

Silverlight to power the online video portal for the 2008 Olympics

Silverlight to power the online video portal for the 2008 OlympicsWow!I like your notes about 90%! In fact, I had no clue what the Silverlight is. Certainly, I've seen this name in the news but paid no attention. Flash is a king, and I think M$oft will loose this game...

Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, NBC Universal Inc., Olympic Games, online video, online video portal, portal

Discussion threads 2008-01-06

VideoCap Pro Video Capture ActiveX SDK 3.01 (Windows)

VideoCap Pro Video Capture ActiveX SDK is a useful utility that can capture Video from capture card, TV tuner, dv cam, dvd player to AVI or WMV 9, WMV8 file format. With VideoCap ActiveX Control, control your application immediately support video capture, using Microsoft Windows Driver Model WDM devices or...

Tags: Video Capture, Video, ActiveX, Viscom Software, VideoCap Pro Video Capture ActiveX SDK, Corporate Communications, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Microsoft Windows, Marketing, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2007-12-19

If you're concerned about security, look beyond the browser

If you're concerned about security, look beyond the browserOpinions, declaratively stated do not make them factsYes, we know you hate Quicktime and Real. Now, tell us, exactly, how keeping these two products off your computer protects you from browser bugs?I was expecting something relevant, like tips on safe and smart...

Tags: Web browsers, Digital music, Digital media, Only Problem, Web browser, Light Up, Apple QuickTime, Microsoft Internet Explorer, security

Discussion threads 2007-12-05