Hacking with Go: Part 3

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

Ivan Kwiatkowski joins Natalie once again for a follow-up episode to Hacking with Go: Part 2. This time we’ll get Ivan’s perspective on the way Go’s security features are designed and used, from the user/hacker perspective. And of course we will also talk about how AI fits into all this…

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Featuring:

• Ivan Kwiatkowski – GitHub, Mastodon, X
• Natalie Pistunovich – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• Hacking with Go: Part 1
• Hacking with Go: Part 2
• Pascal (programming language)
• Hacking tool: IDA Pro
• Hacking tool: Ghidra
• Stowaway – Multi-hop Proxy Tool for pentesters
• Ivan’s video on reversing a Go malware
• “Stylometry” - recognizing author by code style, talk from the CCC 2014

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1. Opener (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Sourcegraph (00:00:23)

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3. It's Go Time! (00:02:47)

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4. Welcome back, Ivan! (00:03:36)

5. IDA Pro helping reverse engineers (00:04:41)

6. Is Go better for researchers or hackers? (00:06:36)

7. Rust is the real menace (00:07:35)

8. On Go's cross-compilation feature (00:09:31)

9. Go support for exotic platforms (00:10:57)

10. Security risks of listing module deps (00:13:49)

11. Benefits of Go over C & C++ (00:16:22)

12. Is Go code more secure overall? (00:18:29)

13. Sponsor: FireHydrant (00:19:47)

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14. Does COBOL malware exist? (00:21:18)

15. Reversing Pascal malware (00:22:02)

16. Defining APT (00:22:36)

17. Is the reversing process always the same? (00:25:09)

18. Those pesky goroutines (00:29:13)

19. Visualizing the reversing process (00:33:11)

20. Does Go's simplicity aid reversing? (00:35:24)

21. The efficiency of Go's compiler (00:37:52)

22. Do malware devs catch their errors? (00:38:47)

23. Evaluating errors in Assembly (00:41:33)

24. AI Tools for malware code review (00:43:23)

25. AI and codegen (00:46:08)

26. Ivan's (premature) unpop (00:49:37)

27. AI for fingerprinting malware authors (00:51:59)

28. Wrapping up! (00:55:16)

29. Outro (00:56:44)

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