Bug Hunt
Bug Hunt
A Quick Start Guide to Penetration Testing
About the Book
In order to test their security infrastructure, companies are increasingly turning to freelance security researchers to hunt for bugs - glitches in their systems with the potential to be exploited - and paying the ethical professionals who report them for removal.
This quick guide is an attempt to get readers actively hunting for bugs on their own, on real websites - for real money - as soon as possible. With the direct explanations, walkthroughs, and code examples provided in this document, anyone with a smattering of understanding in web technologies can expect to begin productively (and profitably) hunting for security flaws.
About the Author
Table of Contents
- Introduction
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What You Should Already Know
- HTTP
- HTML
- Javascript
- JSON
- SQL
- Cookies
- The Browser
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Setting Up Your Environment
- Tool Philosophy
- Scanners
- Browsers
- Burp Suite
- Kali Linux
- SQLmap
- Other Tools
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Joining the Hunt
- The Importance of Choosing Your (Legal) Hunting Ground
- Bug Hunting Communities
- Testing Grounds
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Web Application Security Overview
- The Ubiquity of Web Apps
- Security Issues Intrinsic to Web Applications
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Attacks
- XSS
- CSRF
- SQL Injection (SQLi)
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Submitting Great Bug Reports
- Important Jargon and Technical Terms
- 5 Tips for Writing a Great Report
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Conclusion
- Where To Go From Here
- Press Inquiries
- Thank You
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Additional Resources
- General Purpose
- HTML
- Javascript
- Shellcode
- SQL
- Pentesting
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