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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

Automated vulnerability discovery and exploitation


In the following pages, we will look at some tools focused on vulnerabilities in an automated way. They can save time and are perfect for so-called juicy bugs, such as XSS, SQL injections, cross-site request forgery (CSRF), and other kinds of injections.

Websecurify (SECAPPS)

Websecurity (https://www.websecurify.com/) started as a normal web vulnerability scanner. It was very useful when the first application of AJAX started to appear in the world. Initially, it started as an open-source project, but recently, the company closed the code and released it as a commercial product. Currently, Websecurify does not exist anymore; it was changed to a product called SECAPPS, which is a web security scanner on demand, that you can open in your web browser. There is a free version, limited to some geolocations from where you execute the scanner, but annoyingly it nags you to buy the product:

Acunetix

Acunetix (https://www.acunetix.com/) is a vulnerability...