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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

Origin


Firstly, keep in mind that there are two types of languages, compiled and interpreted. Compiled languages transform source code into binary code, creating strings of 1s and 0s that computers can understand in a low-level way. On the other hand, interpreted languages use something called an interpreter to understand the execution time of source code and do whatever the code says. There are other kinds of languages that are intermediates between interpreted and compiled, and use frameworks or virtual machines to understand bytecode. Bytecode is intermediate code created by technologies such as Java or .NET, but for the purpose of this book, it is not necessary to explore it in more depth.

Most web technologies use interpreters or virtual machines to work. Popular languages such as PHP, Python, Ruby, and JavaScript are interpreted, while .NET and Java use a virtual machine. These technologies create statements to interact with data stores.

 

A data store is usually a database, but it also...