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Next week s seven-bulletin slate, including critical fixes for IE and Windows, won t reach 8.1 unless April s Update has been applied Microsoft today announced it will deliver seven s
stanley cup ecurity updates to customers next week, including an almost-habitual one for Internet Explorer IE , and others for Windows, Offi
owala ce and Lync, the companyrsquo communications server software.Before then, Windows 8.1 devices that rely on Windows Update to obtain patches must have moved to Windows 8.1 Update, an interim upgrade Microsoft shipped in early April.The IE update, one of two classified as critical, Microsoftrsquo most serious threat ranking, will include a patch for a vulnerability that went partially-public last month after a bug bounty program tired of waiting for
owala ca Redmond to fix the flaw. Two weeks ago, HP TippingPointrsquo Zero Day Initiative ZDI revealed some details about the IE bug after its 180-day grace period had expired without Microsoft providing a patch. Microsoft acknowledged that the flaw existed, but said it had not received reports of the vulnerability being exploited in the wild. The company repeated that claim today.The other critical update will patch all still-supported versions of Windows, ranging from Windows Server 2003 to Windows 8.1. Like the IE bulletin mdash; Microsoftrsquo term for an update package that patches one or more vulnerabilities mdash; the critical one for Windows was tagged as remote Cook Microsoft set to unveil an Xbox or Windows RT tablet
The agency questioned the government s ability to fight a bioterror attack Dozens of overlapping IT systems could prevent the U.S. government from properly responding to a bioterrrorist attack, a U.S. General Accounting Office GAO study has found. The report, released Monday by Congressrsquo; investigative arm, found flaws in the gov
polene france ernmentrsquo implementation of bioterrorism-related information systems and recommended better coordination of IT programs to improve the n
polene bag ationrsquo preparedness for bioterrorist attacks or new disease outbreaks. Titled Bioterrorism: Information Technology Strategy Could Strengthen Federal Agenciesrsquo; Abilities to Respond to Public Health Emergencies, the report reviewed six federal agenciesrsquo; efforts to use IT to prepare for and respond to bioterrorist attacks, ranging from the Department of Agriculture USDA to the Department of Defense. The GAO found a plethora of existing and planned systems for tracking bioterrorist threats, but little co
stanley polska ordination or data sharing among the systems or the agencies that relied on them. It recommended that the government exert leadership on the issue and adopt health care data standards to encourage sharing among public health systems. In all, the GAO counted 72 information systems and technology programs in use across the six agencies, including 34 for collecting and analyzing disease data, 10 for communications and reporting systems, 10 for detection of bioterrorist th
