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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

Training


Basically, there are two kinds of training, formal and non-formal. The first are some online projects that offer courses about information security, application security, and network security; on the other hand, there are institutes and companies which offer professional courses and certifications.

We will review some of them.

Platzi

Platzi is an online learning platform focused on offering IT courses, based on an annual subscription. In the different paths designed by Platzi, there is one about information security, and specifically two of interest for bug bounty hunters: one of them is called Introducción a la seguridad informática, which describes the basics of information security, and some of the tools and techniques used in network security assessments, and the second called Curso de análisis de vulnerabilidades Web con OWASP, which describes the different vulnerabilities included in the OWASP testing guide, with examples.

You can find these courses at https://platzi.com/cursos...