1. Footguns in Golang 2. Please stop exposing your LLM to the internet!

Talk Submissions: ruxmon@proton.me

Footguns in Golang - Zoltan (@loltan)
Automated tooling and AI assistants have raised the floor for code review — the obvious Go bugs now get caught on the first pass by anyone. But that floor is also where most reviewers stop, because the tooling only flags what it already knows to look for. This talk goes past it, into Go's subtle and dangerous behaviours: silent integer overflows that smuggle SQL queries at the protocol level, null-byte auth bypasses at the CGO boundary, JSON marshallers that silently leak the very secrets they were written to redact, reverse-proxy hop-by-hop header abuse, and the JSON-parsing quirks that keep CSRF alive in modern REST APIs. These footguns and the Semgrep rules to catch them were the subject of a recent elttam blog post — but rules are only interesting once you point them at real code. So for Ruxmon, we've turned them loose on a swathe of large, widely-used open source Go projects to see what actually falls out

2. Please stop exposing your LLM inference to the internet! - Griffyn Hancock
LLM backend and frontend vendor docs make configuration recommendations that are vulnerable in non secure networks. Those same backends often have no auth out of the box, or no native option for auth at all. This becomes a problem when non technical people ask chatgpt to set up "local ai" for them and end up exposing their inference endpoint to the internet en masse. This is likely a contributing factor to the hundreds of thousands (and counting) hosts that are exposed with no authentication, which at best can result in inference compute hijacking, and at worst result in for RCE with extra steps. We will also look at some of the whacky poisoned system prompts that I have found while scanning for this.

Griffyn Hancock is a cybersecurity student who has had a hobbyist interest in machine learning for 10 years. He is always tinkering and learning, and loves to share what he's found.

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Room 080.02.002 at RMIT (Building 80) - 445 Swanston St, Melbourne

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