- It's important to ask yourselves a series of questions about any tool you are thinking of adopting, analyzing how it will fit into your existing workflow, what value it will add, how it is uniquely positioned to add that value, and more.
- Burp Notes, the Burp Python Scripter, and the JSON Beautifier (one of many beautifiers) are just a few of the great extensions we've covered.
- nmap and Aircrack-ng are both best practice tools for network pentesting.
- Burp Pro gives you the Burp Scanner, automated PoC generation, and several other useful Advanced Manual Tools.
- Kali Linux comes packaged with many of the tools researchers rely on. The fact that it can also live-boot from a disk makes it a lightweight solution for any pentesting lab.
- OSINT stands for Open Source Intelligence and is the process of gathering information about a target from publicly available sources...
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Hands-On Bug Hunting for Penetration Testers
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Overview of this book
Bug bounties have quickly become a critical part of the security economy. This book shows you how technical professionals with an interest in security can begin productively—and profitably—participating in bug bounty programs.
You will learn about SQli, NoSQLi, XSS, XXE, and other forms of code injection. You’ll see how to create CSRF PoC HTML snippets, how to discover hidden content (and what to do with it once it’s found), and how to create the tools for automated pentesting work?ows.
Then, you’ll format all of this information within the context of a bug report that will have the greatest chance of earning you cash.
With detailed walkthroughs that cover discovering, testing, and reporting vulnerabilities, this book is ideal for aspiring security professionals. You should come away from this work with the skills you need to not only find the bugs you're looking for, but also the best bug bounty programs to participate in, and how to grow your skills moving forward in freelance security research.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Preface
Free Chapter
Joining the Hunt
Choosing Your Hunting Ground
Preparing for an Engagement
Unsanitized Data – An XSS Case Study
SQL, Code Injection, and Scanners
CSRF and Insecure Session Authentication
Detecting XML External Entities
Access Control and Security Through Obscurity
Framework and Application-Specific Vulnerabilities
Formatting Your Report
Other Tools
Other (Out of Scope) Vulnerabilities
Going Further
Assessment
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