bug bounty
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What I Learned Failing the BSCP Exam
I failed my first attempt at the Burp Suite Certified Practitioner Exam (BSCP). It definitely hurt and was a blow to my ego. Especially after having studied so much for months on end. For those who don’t know, the BSCP is an exam based on Portswigger’s Web Security Academy training. It’s 100% practical and tests
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Building a Recon Toolkit with Docker
With the rise in popularity of bug bounty hunting, there’s been a lot of great tools developed. ProjectDiscovery‘s suite of tools and contributions made by Tomnomnom certainly come to mind. With the amount of tools, however, comes the complexity of managing them: keeping them up to date, making sure dependencies are installed, keeping your bounty
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Automating HackerOne Scope Parsing with qsv for Bug Bounty Recon
Before you start bug hunting on a new program, you need to feed the right assets to the right tools for automated recon. Sorting through the scope and getting your environment setup is a tedious (and delicate) process. No one should want to do this manually. Especially since manual sorting can lead to mistakes. And
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How to Refine Your Web Application Testing Methodology for Effective Attacks
When I first started out bug hunting, I was decent at recon and had a sense for what targets I wanted to go after. But once I got to exploring the target, I didn’t have a set methodology. I just wandered around on the site until something caught my eye in Burp. Without a structured
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Effective Network Scanning with Nmap: A Practical Workflow
There’s a ton of content about the network mapping tool, nmap, and rightfully so. It’s a powerful tool in the hands of a capable user. But most of the tutorials out there are just regurgitations of the man page or docs in various forms. Many only cover basic usage of the tool that can be
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Reverse Engineering APIs with Burp2API
Postman is one of my favorite tools for testing the functionality and security of APIs. It allows you to organize API routes neatly and write/run automated tests across collections of requests. If you have access to the API spec of an application you are testing, you can easily import the mapped API directly into Postman