Hot or not: ActiveX vulnerabilities

ActiveX vulnerabilities have posed a security challenge for some time, and they're likely to be a challenge for quite some time to come.

Look at examples such as Microsoft's patches this summer, which included a fix for Internet Explorer (MS-09034) and another (MS-09035) for Visual Studio 2005 and 2008.

These updates were released to protect users from a security hole in technology employed by developers to create powerful web-based application elements. More specifically, the flaws resided in the Active Template Library (ATL), which is a framework of code that helps to ease the creation of Component Object Models (COM) and ActiveX controls. Microsoft has an excellent overview of its ATL available here.

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