<body><div><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=4CDuM9_1H3RF9aJ00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=4CDuM9_1H3RF9aJ00" width="800" height="450" >Two Microsoft issues, currently unlinked to one another, are affecting the tri-campus community this week — a Thursday outage of Microsoft Outlook and a security vulnerability for which a patch was released Tuesday.<h2>Thursday’s widespread outage</h2>Downdetector reported the first issues at 12:21 p.m., with major spikes following shortly after 1 p.m., peaking just under 130,000 reports.Holy Cross College uses Microsoft 365 as its digital workplace.Reece Campbell, a Holy Cross freshman, explained he is unable to check or receive emails since “all of Outlook seems to be down.”He said he became aware of the outage around 4 p.m. Thursday.As of 8:49 p.m., Campbell said the outage was ongoing.“We are aware of the widespread service disruptions reported by Microsoft today and are monitoring the situation,” Holy Cross spokesperson Matthew Palmer wrote in a statement to The Observer. “We are working with our campus technology team to assess any impact on our students, faculty and staff and will share updates as necessary.”Microsoft 365 Status has shared updates throughout the day on X.In a 2:31 p.m. update, Microsoft posted, “We determined the elevated load isn’t driven by an increase in traffic, but by a number of servers being unexpectedly unavailable; straining the remaining infrastructure. We’re working to safely return them to service.”At 10:12 p.m., Microsoft 365 status posted, “We’ve monitored the status of the changes applied to improve serviceability and confirmed they’re not taking as expected. We’re identifying alternate workstreams that can be applied to increase capacity in the face of sustained traffic management imbalances.”Both Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s use Google Workspace as their digital productivity suite.<h2>Tuesday’s security threat</h2>On Tuesday, Microsoft announced a security issue and released a patch.According to Forbes, the new security vulnerability in Outlook was exploited such that a single click on a malicious file could prompt a credential leak.The Cybersecurity &amp; Infrastructure Security Agency added the issue to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on Tuesday.Neither those behind the attacks nor those affected have been publicly named at this time.At 7:53 p.m. Thursday, the Notre Dame community was alerted to the security issues via an email from the Office of Information Technology, approved by interim chief information security officer John Buysse.The email defined those at risk as “Anyone using Microsoft Outlook on a computer or device not managed by the University.”The email directed those using devices not managed by the University and using Microsoft Outlook “to perform an update as soon as possible” for safety.Finally, the email directed community members to severalresources for how to install the update.</div></body>

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Two Microsoft issues, currently unlinked to one another, are affecting the tri-campus community this week — a Thursday outage of Microsoft Outlook and a security vulnerability for which a patch was released Tuesday. Thursday’s widespread outage. Downdetector reported the first issues at 12:21 p.m., with major spikes following...

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Two Microsoft issues, currently unlinked to one another, are affecting the tri-campus community this week — a Thursday outage of Microsoft Outlook and a se

Multiple Microsoft issues affect the tri-campus community

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