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Bug Bounty Hunting Essentials

By : Carlos A. Lozano, Shahmeer Amir
Book Image

Bug Bounty Hunting Essentials

By: Carlos A. Lozano, Shahmeer Amir

Overview of this book

Bug bounty programs are the deals offered by prominent companies where-in any white-hat hacker can find bugs in the applications and they will have a recognition for the same. The number of prominent organizations having this program has increased gradually leading to a lot of opportunity for Ethical Hackers. This book will initially start with introducing you to the concept of Bug Bounty hunting. Then we will dig deeper into concepts of vulnerabilities and analysis such as HTML injection, CRLF injection and so on. Towards the end of the book, we will get hands-on experience working with different tools used for bug hunting and various blogs and communities to be followed. This book will get you started with bug bounty hunting and its fundamentals.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Summary


In this chapter, we learned about the basics of bug bounty hunting, including the concepts of different aspects of a bug bounty program. We learned how you should engage with a bug bounty program and the platforms that you should engage with. We learned the difference between public and private bug bounty programs and about bug bounty hunter statistics.

We learned about a formulated methodology to hunt in bug bounty programs and a roadmap on how to become a bug bounty hunter, including some rules and pointers on how to work on and with bug bounty programs. This chapter is essential as it provides a basis for the chapters to come in the future. It is crucial that you go through this chapter more than once to learn deeply about what it has to say.