Every second Tuesday Microsoft releases patches for the Windows OS and related software.
This second Tuesday of April Microsoft released 7 critical patches.

7 vulnerabilities were for remote code execution

ITS will approve these patches to campus. You should update your home computer(s).

The 7 products or components affected are:

Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Office
Microsoft Exchange (Mail Server)
Internet Explorer
CAPICOM (Cryptographic API Component Object Model)
RPC running the DNS Server