Bug Bounty Hunting Essentials: Quick-paced guide to help white-hat hackers get through bug bounty programs

by Carlos A. Lozano, Shahmeer Amir

Gain practical knowledge of application security and become a skilled bug bounty hunter by exploring a variety of related concepts, techniques, and tools Bug bounty programs are initiatives adopted by companies as part of their vulnerability management strategy. This approach involves rewarding white-hat hackers for finding bugs in applications and other software vulnerabilities. The number of prominent organizations opting for this program has exponentially increased over time, creating more opportunities for ethical hackers. This book starts by introducing you to the concept of bug bounty hunting and its fundamentals. You'll then delve into vulnerabilities and analysis concepts, such as HTML injection and CRLF injection, which will help you understand these attacks and be able to secure an organization from them. Toward later chapters, you'll gain practical knowledge of working with different tools for bug hunting. Finally, you'll explore a variety of blogs and communities you need to follow to further build on your skills. By the end of this book, you will have developed the pentesting skills you need to become a successful bug bounty hunter. This book is for white-hat hackers or anyone who wants to understand bug bounty hunting and build on their penetration testing skills. Prior knowledge of bug bounty hunting is not required.

Genres: Hackers

270 pages, Paperback

Published November 30, 2018

Reviews

[Ajam · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5★
Vaguely remember most of this, but enough to write that it had different sections for different bugs with the What/Where/How/Why/etc followed by several examples of H1 reports.
However, I consider Yaworski's Real-World Bug Hunting: A Field Guide to Web Hacking to be a better rip-off.

[Vlad · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good book for getting started with bug bounty programs. Useful information about types of vulnerabilities, detection, poc and mitigation. I'm giving it 3 stars because it was a bit repetitive at times and the Kindle version has quite a few misspellings and about half of the screenshots were barely readable.

[F · Rating 3 out of 5]

the Kindle version has alot of skipped screenshots , i had to go to actually site for reading the reports of vulns because the POC are missing since the kindle are half of the POC of most of the them,

not for noobs , you need to understand the fundamental before reading this, after that just refreshing your information and see alot of POC of vulns,
there are some code error in the book , like SQL subject,
1=1 not 1=0 as been written,

[Ali · Rating 5 out of 5]

I want to read this book

[Mohammed Anas · Rating 5 out of 5]

I highly recommend this book for those who started in bug bounty hunting.