This article is the following of the previous one (obviously…) about why I love bug bounty. However I realized that that one sounds like everything is perfect in this job, but since the world is not whole pinky full of rainbows, and butterflies, and unicorns, I have to say the truth. Long time resolution, loneliness, deception, companies, there are also bad points (or maybe I’m just frustrated to get so much duplicates these days xD).

As a user I would say that I don’t care about all these Flash stuff that try to catch my eyes, most of the time I have a plugin to disable them. As a developper, it reminds me the (not so good) old time when the marketing peoples always wanted to add “movement” in the website, yeah it looks so kool! As a hacker, well… I didn’t know how nice it could be, but I recently learned how to find issue in there and it’s funny as hell. I was close to the success as I quickly found 3 XSS, but unfortunately all my reports were marked as duplicate :/

A friend recently asked me what methods I use to find subdomains. To be honest I was confused, like “oooohhh so much, brute force mmm… zone transfer and… brute for… wait Google and mmm… many other tools!” What a shame that I was so inaccurate after so much time spent to look for subdomains. Time to dig a little bit! After I wrote a list of the most popular methods, I tried to make a list of some tools and online resources to exploit them. Of course this list is far from exhaustive, there are many new stuff every day, but it’s still a good start :)

People are usually surprised by the answer when they ask me what I do for living, questions rain, here are some answers. My first report was a XSS on a Yahoo acquisition, it happened the 26th January 2016. Since this date, I (try to) perform Bug Bounty as a full time job on Hackerone. Did I say “job”? I don’t really consider bug bounty/hacking as a “job”, it’s more a hobby or a passion, because you have to be passionnate to perform in this domain. So let’s say that bug bounty is my main source of income. Below why I do this “job”, why it fits perfectly to me and why I love it.

This is a real story or not, that occured in mid 2017 or not, about a private program or not, on Hackerone or not, believe me or not, but it changed my life. I would like to thanks all the people from this company I talked with. They were very nice with me, very fast to fix the bugs and I always got the rewards in less than 7 days, frequently the day of the report, even for the smallest bugs. Thanks to them, I wish we could find more program like this one.