Basic knowledge about bug bounty

What is bug bounty?

Also called a vulnerability rewards program (VRP) or vulnerability disclosure program (VDP) is a reward given for reporting a security vulnerability and it is a great way to test their skills on different types of targets and get paid when they find some security vulnerabilities.

Best Bug Bounty books for Beginners

If you can't learn from digital screens, don't worry you can learn anything from books. here are some bug bounty training books for beginners,

1. Ghost In The Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker

gingKevin Mitnick was the most elusive computer break-in artist in history. He accessed computers and networks at the world's biggest companies and no matter how fast the authorities were, Mitnick was faster, sprinting through phone switches, computer systems, and cellular networks. As the FBI's net finally began to tighten, Mitnick went on the run, engaging in an increasingly sophisticated game of hide-and-seek that escalated through false identities, a host of cities, and plenty of close shaves, to an ultimate showdown with the Feds, who would stop at nothing to bring him down.

Ghost in the Wires is a thrilling true story of intrigue, suspense, and unbelievable escapes -- and a portrait of a visionary who forced the authorities to rethink the way they pursued him and forced companies to rethink the way they protect their most sensitive information.

2. Web Hacking 101: How to Make Money Hacking Ethically

Web hacking 101 is an eBook that was developed by software security expert Peter Yaworski. His goal was to help the HackerOne community profit from their bug bounty hunting skills within a bug bounty program. Basically, this bug bounty tool will help you learn how to monetize your cybersecurity knowledge.

If you want to learn how to hack as a beginner for free, HackerOne makes this eBook available for free. Once you sign up or log into your free HackerOne account, you’ll receive the publication via email.

3. Bug Bounty Hunting Essentials: Quick-paced guide to help white-hat hackers get through bug bounty programs 

Bug bounty programs are initiatives adopted by companies as part of their vulnerability management strategy. This approach involves rewarding white-hat hackers for finding bugs in applications and other software vulnerabilities. The number of prominent organizations opting for this program has exponentially increased over time, creating more opportunities for ethical hackers. This book starts by introducing you to the concept of bug bounty hunting and its fundamentals. You'll then delve into vulnerabilities and analysis concepts, such as HTML injection and CRLF injection, which will help you understand these attacks and be able to secure an organization from them. Toward later chapters, you'll gain practical knowledge of working with different tools for bug hunting. Finally, you'll explore a variety of blogs and communities you need to follow to further build on your skills. By the end of this book, you will have developed the pentesting skills you need to become a successful bug bounty hunter. 

Are we need any programming knowledge for bug bounty?

The answer is Yes and No, don't get confused guys, I will tell you why the answer is Yes and No. First, we will see why we need coding knowledge in bug hunting. if you need to develop a career in bug hunting, you should know to develop some important web-based programming languages like HTML, JavaScript, PHP, and ASP.NET also you need to know some scripting languages like Python, Ruby, Perl, and Bash. otherwise, you will face some problems and you will doesn't know how to manipulate code. Next, we will see why No. if you are a beginner in this field you need not worry about programming knowledge but you need to know about the basic computer operating knowledge. if you don't have that much knowledge about the programming language, you need to find bugs, for you guys developers have a special tool called "PVS-Studio Analyzer".

This tool is used by programmers for rectifying the errors that they have unchecked during the programming time. By using this tool also the bug hunters get benefits out from this. This tool will help you out with automated testing rather than manual testing. But this tool is paid because it is an automation tool so you have to buy this otherwise you can use the free trial.