Open Source Security

By Josh Bressers

Social engineering and why zlib got a 2018 CVE ID

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Published April 10, 2022 7:00pm

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. Show Notes Hackers using fake emergency data requests CVE-2018-25032 Global Security Database

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