Steve Gibson
speaker
30,295 appearances
25 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 3d ago
Steve Gibson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 25 in all, peaking in Sep 2026 with 8.
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And so far.
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The problems have always been located in a component that I never load.
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So I've I've been lucky.
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Heard that.
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Okay, so
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The lesson here is that what we know of as the attack surface matters, right?
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That is what what are the attack surfaces which are being exposed by these patches being closed?
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You know, uh
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In response to this month's patch extravaganza, the endpoint security firm CrowdStrike addressed the attack services that were affected.
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They wrote, this is CrowdStrike, saying Microsoft Office received 22 critical patches this month.
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Critical.
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of which twelve are exploitable via preview pane or reading pane.
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When either preview pane or reading pane are enabled, merely previewing a crafted file triggers code execution without any click, attachment open, or macro prompt.
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This attack pattern has historically been favored by both commodity phishing campaigns and targeted intrusion operators because it eliminates much of the social engineering friction of convincing users to take an action.
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Okay, so yikes.
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You know, they didn't just find and fix one critical bug, they meaning Microsoft, where just viewing an email.
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could take over a system.
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No, they've just found and fixed 12 critical, different exploitable flaws, any one of which would allow a system takeover simply by previewing an email, just having your outlook configured so that that you see it when you're when when you when you click over on the email
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mail enumeration list.
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