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You're reading from Bug Bounty Hunting Essentials Quick-paced guide to help white-hat hackers get through bug bounty programs

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2018

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781788626897

Length 270 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Android

Concepts

Bug Bounty

Authors (2):

Shahmeer Amir

Carlos A. Lozano

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface

1. Basics of Bug Bounty Hunting

2. How to Write a Bug Bounty Report FREE CHAPTER

3. SQL Injection Vulnerabilities

4. Cross-Site Request Forgery

5. Application Logic Vulnerabilities

6. Cross-Site Scripting Attacks

7. SQL Injection

8. Open Redirect Vulnerabilities

9. Sub-Domain Takeovers

10. XML External Entity Vulnerability

11. Template Injection

12. Top Bug Bounty Hunting Tools

13. Top Learning Resources

14. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Prerequisites of writing a bug bounty report

Even if you have identified a highly critical vulnerability in the application of a bug bounty program, if the vulnerability report is not clearly written and explained, there are chances that the vulnerability may be rejected by the program. Before writing a bug bounty report, it is crucial that you identify the nature of the program.

Referring to the policy of the program

Reading the scope of the bug bounty is probably the most important thing you should do before even looking at the program's website. It will be really frustrating when you spend a week looking for vulnerabilities in a bug bounty program only to find out that the domain that you tested is not included...

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Authors (2)

Shahmeer Amir

Shahmeer Amir is ranked as the third most accomplished bug hunter worldwide and has helped more than 400 organizations, including Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Twitter, resolve critical security issues in their systems. Following his vision of a safer internet, Shahmeer Amir is the founder and CEO of a cyber security start-up in Pakistan, Veiliux, aiming to secure all kinds of organizations. Shahmeer also holds relevant certifications in the field of cyber security from renowned organizations such as EC-Council, Mile2, and ELearn Security. By profession, Shahmeer is an electrical engineer working on different IoT products to make the lives of people easier.

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Carlos A. Lozano

Carlos A. Lozano is a security consultant with more than 15 years' experience in various security fields. He has worked as a penetration tester, but most of his experience is with security application assessments. He has assessed financial applications, ISC/SCADA systems, and even low-level applications, such as drivers and embedded components. Two years ago, he started on public and private bug bounty programs and focused on web applications, source code review, and reversing projects. Also, Carlos works as Chief Operations Officer at Global CyberSec, an information security firm based in Mexico, with operations in the USA and Chile.

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