Bug bounty resources & advices

Gökhan Güzelkokar
6 min readApr 7, 2020

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https://blog.gnosis.pm/2020-dex-bug-bounty-210f2b67a764

Hey guys, in this story I’m going to share some resources for every hacker and advices for beginners…

Advices for Beginners

Before starting bug bounty.

1- Learn basics of internet.

2- Learn http very well. (request, response, headers, cookies, http status, body, request types(GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, OPTIONS, HEAD) etc)

3- Learn basics of html,css and javascript.

4- Learn basics of golang, sql, ruby and python. Just install it and print hello world. (for now)

5- Learn basics of networking (DHCP, DNS, routers, server, client, IP, TCP, UPD, SMTP, Ports, Subnetting etc.)

6- Learn how to use google. Learn Google Dorks…

7- Be patient and read a lot. (Blogs, tweets, write-ups etc.)Nobody starts earning thousands of dollars as soon as they start.

8- Use social media to improve yourself. Become an information exploiter. I will share a lot of twitter accounts below.

9- Don’t start searching before learning to least 10 tools and learn the basics of all vulnerabilities. (xss,idor,ssrf,rce,crlf,sqli etc.)

10- Understand what is being done on the site where you will search for the vulnerability. Understand business logic.

11- Inputs are our biggest weapon.

12- Examine JS files well for valuable information..

13- Stay safe and healthy…

Tools I use

Web tools

http://dns.bufferover.run/dns?q=domain.com

https://bgp.he.net/

https://spyse.com/

All Resources (medium, twitter, youtube, blogs etc)

I will update this constantly. You are welcome to add everyone I forgot as a comment, I will add to the list instantly. We are stronger together. Please write your suggestions in the comments and we will create a resource pool for everyone. Stay safe and healthy.

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