Sympantec discovers Microsoft Access flaw
17 July 2008
Microsoft Access may be more susceptible to hacker attacks as a result of updates made to an online facilitating toolkit, according to reports.
Security company Sympantec claims the Neosploit programme allows less-skilled hackers to compromise other internet users' PCs.
The firm says the toolkit can capitalise on a vulnerability discovered last week in Microsoft's Access database program.
Issuing a warning to consumers, Sympantec stated further analysis of the honeypot compromises had revealed that "the exploit had been added to a variant of the Neosploit exploit kit", allowing it to potentially reach a larger number of victims.
Symantec's Sean Hittel said: "As is the case with most of these ActiveX attacks, they are being served by traditional Web sites that have themselves fallen victim to automated SQL injection attacks."
No patch has been provided as yet for the vulnerability by Microsoft, which released its latest batch of monthly web updates on July 8th.
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