With ActiveX Conveniences Come Security Risks
Friday, August 1st, 2008Search the national vulnerability database (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm) for medium and high severity vulnerabilities involving “ActiveX”. You would find dozens of examples in 2008 alone that could enable a hacker to “own” one or more endpoints in your organization. Hackers can use these to steal information from your PCs, infect others, and steal data from whatever servers those PCs interact with. Good news: you can do something about it!
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