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San Francisco, CA (AHN) - A U.S. government computer security watchdog warned companies using Microsoft Office Access, hackers may be targeting the application. The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) said earlier this week it is "active exploitation" of Access database files.

Although the agency provided no details on the attacks observed, hackers could use the Access Database files to inject computer commands. Both Microsoft Internet Explorer and Outlook Express normally block the .mdb files, security vendor Symantec told InfoWorld.

As in previous warnings, Microsoft told users not to accept files from unknown sources.