New Microsoft Zero-Day Vulnerabilities: Your Action Required

LITS is actively working to address a number of critical zero-day vulnerabilities that affect the Microsoft environment.

One of these affects the Outlook Desktop Client. Microsoft recently released a patch to address this vulnerability so it’s critical that anyone who uses the desktop client on either a College owned or personal computer run any available updates as soon as possible. If you have any questions regarding this update, please contact the Help Desk.

Updating the Outlook Desktop Client (Wind0ws):

  1. Close all Microsoft Office applications
    (e.g., Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc.)
  2. Open Outlook
  3. In the top-left, click File
  4. In the bottom-left, click Office Account
  5. Click Update Options and Update Now
  6. Wait some time for updates to download and install

 

Updating the Outlook Desktop Client (macOS):

  1. Close all Microsoft Office applications
    (e.g., Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc.)
  2. Open Outlook
  3. In the top-left, click Help and Check for Updates
  4. Click Update
  5. If prompted, click Update All
  6. Wait some time for updates to download and install

Our systems administrators are working to update and apply security patches to backend systems. Please report any issues or oddities that you may see to the Help Desk.

We will provide updates about our efforts as we have them. Please contact the Help Desk with any questions or concerns: help@brynmawr.edu or 610-526-7440.