Every time reader Charles boots his PC, he sees an Internet Explorer Script Error like this: It’s not the same one each time, either. And to further confound the ...

Microsoft on Monday released a new beta-test search tool for PowerShell users that's designed to help them find code across local and online repositories. Microsoft took a semantic Web approach when ...

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Exploit mitigation techniques available in Internet Explorer keep the browser strong in face of memory exploits, but attacks could be carried out through the script interpreter engine. In a blog post ...

Security researchers in Denmark are warning users to disable “active scripting” in Microsoft Corp.’s Internet Explorer 6.0 Web browser to prevent attackers from targeting and taking remote control of ...

The Release Candidate version of Microsoft’s Script Explorer for Windows PowerShell is now available for download with support for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 platforms. The Script Explorer for ...

If you’re at all interested in PC scripting then you’ll probably already know that Windows PowerShell is a very powerful technology that presents all kinds of interesting management and automation ...

A ‘zombie script’ could allow attackers to deluge Internet Explorer 11 users’ browser windows with pop-up alerts until they close the tab. Security researcher Manuel Caballero developed the script by ...

Internet Explorer's scripting engine was the favorite target of a North Korean cyber-espionage group this year, after the hackers deployed two zero-days, but also crafted new exploits for two other ...

Microsoft recently patched a critical flaw in Internet Explorer’s scripting engine that could lead to remote code execution. The vulnerability is being exploited in the wild and was originally ...