Bug Bounty

1. Incentivized Security Testing: Encourages individuals to discover and report security vulnerabilities.
2. Crowdsourced Approach: Harnesses the collective expertise of security researchers worldwide.
3. Responsible Disclosure: Requires reporting vulnerabilities to organizations before public disclosure.
4. Defined Scope and Rules: Specifies eligible systems, assets, and guidelines for participation.
5. Reward Structure: Determines types of vulnerabilities, severity levels, and corresponding payouts.

Before delving into bug bounty hunting, it's advantageous to possess the following skills:

1. Understanding of Web Technologies: Familiarity with web protocols, such as HTTP/HTTPS, and common web technologies like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and SQL.
2. Knowledge of Security Principles: Understanding of common security vulnerabilities such as cross-site scripting (XSS), SQL injection, and insecure direct object references (IDOR).
3. Proficiency in Network Fundamentals: Knowledge of networking concepts like TCP/IP, DNS, and HTTP requests.
4. Experience with Linux/Unix: Basic proficiency in using Linux/Unix command-line interfaces for reconnaissance and exploitation tasks.

By learning bug bounty hunting, you gain the following skills:

1. Security Assessment: Ability to identify and exploit security vulnerabilities in web applications and systems.
2. Web Application Security: Proficiency in understanding and mitigating common web security vulnerabilities such as XSS, SQL injection, CSRF, and more.
3. Network Security: Knowledge of network protocols and techniques for discovering and exploiting network-based vulnerabilities.
4. Penetration Testing: Experience in conducting penetration tests to assess the security posture of target systems.