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 ...

DCOM or Distributed Component Object Model is a proprietary Microsoft technology that allows Component Object Model (COM) software to communicate across a network.

Microsoft says that these new OOBE updates add a Shim to prevent the creation of unsupported Component Object Model (COM) objects.

It is a Windows process that hosts Component Object Model (COM) objects. If you delete COM Surrogate, it can cause many errors in your operating system and can render it unstable or unusable.

Both libraries provide access to the Windows Runtime Component Object Model APIs. The language projections use the metadata describing those APIs and provide bindings for the target programming ...

Blaster takes advantage of a known vulnerability in a Windows component called the Distributed Component Object Model interface, which handles messages sent using the remote procedure call (RPC ...