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Hands-On Bug Hunting for Penetration Testers

You're reading from   Hands-On Bug Hunting for Penetration Testers A practical guide to help ethical hackers discover web application security flaws

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789344202
Length 250 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Himanshu Sharma Himanshu Sharma
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Joe Marshall Joe Marshall
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Joining the Hunt FREE CHAPTER 2. Choosing Your Hunting Ground 3. Preparing for an Engagement 4. Unsanitized Data – An XSS Case Study 5. SQL, Code Injection, and Scanners 6. CSRF and Insecure Session Authentication 7. Detecting XML External Entities 8. Access Control and Security Through Obscurity 9. Framework and Application-Specific Vulnerabilities 10. Formatting Your Report 11. Other Tools 12. Other (Out of Scope) Vulnerabilities 13. Going Further 14. Assessment 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

GitHub

GitHub's bug bounty page (https://bounty.github.com/) not only features the leaderboard for all the security researchers who have participated in its program, displaying the username, profile picture, and Twitter handle of the contributor, it also gives you some basic information about the bugs they've discovered—their category, subtype, and a high-level explanatory paragraph about where the vulnerability was discovered and its impacted services:

As valuable as these reports are, though, they don't feature the technical detail (code snippets, screenshots, and relevant file attachments) that the previous two collections of vulnerability reports typically show.

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