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Bug Bounty Hunting Essentials

By : Carlos A. Lozano, Shahmeer Amir
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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

Books and resources


Nowadays, there are books specifically about bug bounty hunting, but bearing in mind this is a book about bug bounty hunting, I think it is not the first place to start to learn about bug bounty hunting. It is preferable to start learning the basics of formal security assessments and then move into the bug bounty hunting world.

Why? Well, the bug bounty hunter's scope is limited, and a hunter sometimes has a different approach from formal security assessment. It is important to remember that bug bounties cannot supply the normal security testing phases in a secure software development life cycle (SDLC). Bug bounties are another phase in the security model and have a different purpose altogether.

So, the books listed in this section are not bug bounty hunter books, but security assessment books.

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