Bug Bounty Programs for Beginners

Let's talk about Bug Bounty Programs. The very first Internet-based bug bounty program was launched by Netscape back in the 90s in the form of cash rewards to those who were able to find vulnerabilities in Netscape Navigator beta software. Since then, the bug bounty programs have evolved and come a long way to what they are today where nearly every large organization and even the government got one.

Bug discovery and reporting programs come in various shapes and forms so let me unpack. First, if you didn’t know, a bug bounty is a deal between a company and an ethical or white-hat hacker where the company pays the hacker to discover and share an unknown vulnerability. The bug bounty programs are offered either directly by a company such as Apple, Facebook, or Google or offered via a third-party crowd-sourced bug bounty platform such as BugCrowd or HackerOne. Bug bounty programs can be published privately or public.

Now, another variety of bug reporting is known as the Vulnerability Disclosure Policy or VDP. It has the same end goal as bug bounty programs but with one big exception and that’s the payout. For this reason, VDPs are known as the See something Say something equivalent of the internet. VDP documentation gives hackers directions on how and where to report a vulnerability. VDPs are covered by the safe harbor, a fancy legal term to assure the ethical hackers that the company will not go after them.

Now, there is yet another path for getting your feet wet with finding vulnerabilities and that’s Capture The Flag or CTF. CTFs are games where hackers have to find bugs and solve puzzles to find quote and quote flags bits of data that tell the system you've completed a given task. CTFs can be great for trying out the targets that you are most interested in like you can start with the easy stuff and work your way up to more. It is like ethical hacking with training wheels if you like.

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