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 ...

Mozilla browsers are opening up a world of opportunities with the ability to use Cross Platform Component Object Model (XPCOM) components. Mozilla browsers also introduced XPConnect technology, which ...

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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 ...

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 ...

The big competition for Corba then was the Open Software Foundation (OSF), with its Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) standard. Meanwhile, Microsoft was not really in the DOC game at all, other ...