What does DCOM stand for?

Distributed Component Object Model (Microsoft)

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Information technology (IT) and computers

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Similarly, Microsoft tightened up the architecture of the Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM), a protocol that allows software components to communicate directly over a network.

Microsoft's big fix

The two vulnerabilities are in the components of Windows that deal with remote procedure calls (RPC) to distributed component object model (DCOM) services.

Blaster and SoBig to Return?

GLOSSARY A few terms commonly used by B2B vendors: XML: eXtensible Markup Language CORBA: Common Object Request Broker Architecture SOAP: Simple Object Access Protocol TAP: Technology Access Plug-Ins DCOM: Distributed Component Object Model DTD: Document-Type Definition PTX: Private Trading Exchange

A FOUNDATION TO BUILD ON

While this technology has largely been replaced with Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM), NetDDE is still available on all Windows platforms.

BindView RAZOR Team Issues RapidFire Updates for New Microsoft ...

0 and the Microsoft Distributed Component Object Model (according to Symantec), would cause your computer to lock up when the AOL Web browser was closed.

BUGOUT

The patch also repairs two buffer overruns in the Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) interface, which could allow a hacker to take over management rights to a computer by allowing arbitrary code to execute.

St. Bernard Software Technical Advisory: Critical Microsoft Windows ...

Specifically, the company has added support for Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), Web Services Description Language (WDSL) and Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) standards.

Xbridge Host Data Connect Adds Support for SOAP, WDSL, DCOM; ...

Microsoft Corporation has announced that all Windows NT-based operating systems are potentially vulnerable to a new Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) interface buffer overflow that allows attackers who can access the Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) interface to gain full control of the target machine.

BindView RAZOR Team Creates Rapid Fire Vulnerability Check for RPC ...