OWASP Boston Chapter Meeting - October 2026

OWASP Boston Chapter Meetups aim to connect app sec enthusiasts and talk on any topic in application security. Doors open at 6:30pm and the presentation starts at 7pm. Pizza and soda will be provided. This will be an in person meetup only.

***ONLY HUMANS ALLOWED! PLEASE BRING AN ID AS THIS IS REQUIRED BY OUR HOSTS. YOUR NAME IN THE REGISTRATION FORM SHOULD MATCH THE ONE ON YOUR ID***

**Thank you to our sponsors Maze (http://www.mazehq.com)**

**Talk Title** - **Prompt Injection as an Architectural Primitive by Shubham Santosh Upadhyay**

**Talk Description** \- Prompt injection is usually treated as one problem with one fix: detection\. This talk argues it is three distinct problems \(type confusion\, control\-flow hijacking\, and causal provenance\) and presents experimental evidence that detection cannot solve the hard one\. Across four detector families\, imperative injections were caught reliably\, but semantically poisoned documents corrupted agent decisions in 100% of runs whil