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Bug Bounty Hunting Essentials
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Bug Bounty Hunting Essentials

by Carlos A. Lozano, Shahmeer Amir
November 2018
Beginner to intermediate
270 pages
7h 53m
English
Packt Publishing
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Basics of Bug Bounty Hunting

Bug bounty hunting is a method for finding flaws and vulnerabilities in web applications; application vendors reward bounties, and so the bug bounty hunter can earn money in the process of doing so. Application vendors pay hackers to detect and identify vulnerabilities in their software, web applications, and mobile applications. Whether it's a small or a large organization, internal security teams require an external audit from other real-world hackers to test their applications for them. That is the reason they approach vulnerability coordination platforms to provide them with private contractors, also known as bug bounty hunters, to assist them in this regard.

Bug bounty hunters possess a wide range of skills ...

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ISBN: 9781788626897