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Bug Bounty Hunting Essentials

Bug Bounty Hunting Essentials

By : Shahmeer Amir , Carlos A. Lozano
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Bug Bounty Hunting Essentials

Bug Bounty Hunting Essentials

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By: Shahmeer Amir , Carlos A. Lozano

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.
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Why does the CSRF exist?

Let's go back to the Facebook example. Josefina is a Facebook user, and she accessed Facebook using her username and password. Facebook created a session ID, and stored it in a cookie, which is managed by Josefina's browser. A week later, Josefina accessed Facebook again, but this time, Josefina did not enter her username and password. The browser sends the session that it has in the cookie to Facebook, and Josefina could access her account.

Josefina used a game in Facebook that had an external link. This means that the business logic Josefina is interacting with does not reside in Facebook's servers. After finishing the game, Josefine came back to her account and noticed posts on her wall about Viagra. All of them were posted by her, but she did not do it. What happened?

The game played by Josefina used the information stored in the cookie...

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