Episode 318 - Social engineering and why zlib got a 2018 CVE ID

Josh and Kurt talk about hackers using emergency data requests to gain access to sensitive data. The argument that somehow backdoors can be protected falls under this problem. We don't yet have the technical or policy protections in place to actually protect this data. We also explain why this zlib issue got a 2018 CVE ID in 2022.

• Hackers using fake emergency data requests
• CVE-2018-25032
• Global Security Database