Security researchers at Cyberbit Ltd. have uncovered a new way that hackers can hijack Windows installations using a vulnerability in Microsoft Corp.’s Component Object Model. The Microsoft COM is a ...

TEL AVIV, Israel – Operational technology (OT), cyber and risk management provider OTORIO has launched an open source Microsoft Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) hardening toolkit to protect ...

Component Object Model or COM is a medium to enable communication between 2 processes or apps. It allows developers to create objects, a.k.a. COM objects (handles processing images, videos, and other ...

Microsoft Component Object Model (COM) hijacking is an old type of cyberattack getting a new spin as attackers find stealthy ways to maintain persistence and evade detection. The Microsoft COM is a ...

Before proceeding further, first, let us know what DCOM is. DCOM or Distributed Component Object Model is a proprietary Microsoft technology that allows Component Object Model (COM) software to ...

Prior to the arrival of the .Net framework, users often encountered two major problems when trying to deploy and maintain rich-client applications in the Windows environment. Ilya Bukshteyn, a group ...

Integrating different applications and application components has a long, and decidedly mixed, history. After years of creating one-off integrations that were complex and fragile, many software ...