50% Off Bug Hunt: A Quick Start Guide to Penetration Testing
A quick start tutorial to help you collect your first bug bounty.
50% Off Bug Hunt: A Quick Start Guide to Penetration Testing launched on March 27, 2015 with 5 votes and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 11 years on.
What it does
In order to test their security infrastructure, companies are increasingly turning to freelance security researchers to hunt for bugs - glitches in their systems with the potential to be exploited - and paying the ethical professionals who report them for removal. This quick guide is an attempt to get readers actively hunting for bugs on their own, on real websites - for real money - as soon as possible. With the direct explanations, walkthroughs, and code examples provided in this document, anyone with a smattering of understanding in web technologies can expect to begin productively (and profitably) hunting for security flaws. I am a developer, journalist, and freelance security…from leanpub.com
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