Ethical Hacking + Bug Bounty in IT Security

Install Burp Suite on Windows, choose professional or jar options, download, run the installer, and explore core tabs such as target, proxy, intruder, scanner, and repeater.

Install kali linux from kali.org, download with torrent, and set up vmware workstation to run kali in a virtual machine. Use burpsuite to find vulnerabilities for bug bounties.

Set up a browser proxy to intercept traffic with burp, configuring 127.0.0.1:8080, enabling SSL, SOCKS v5, and manual proxy settings in Kali Linux and Firefox.

Learn to attach Burp Suite ca certificate to your browser to enable https interception for ethical hacking and bug bounty testing.

Install bwapp and dvwa from provided downloads and metasploit vmware image, then log in to bwapp with bee and bug and dvwa with admin and password.

Install the OWASP framework using a VMware image, configure networking to bridge with your local IP, and launch the OWASP project to explore tools like WebGoat, BWAPP, and DVWA.

Explore XML external entities (XXE), a top web vulnerability in OWASP, how weak XML parsers process external entities, and examples that risk disclosing local files like /etc/passwd.

Discover a simple XXE injection example and validation, showing how a web form reveals XML external entity vulnerabilities via an XML validator, with CDATA handling and character escaping.

Learn to perform an XXE injection using doctype and entities to manipulate xml data, declare entities like myEntity, and validate the injected xml in a web app.

Explore how robots.txt and password files govern access on websites, and learn to identify XML external entity risks and basic defenses against credential exposure and injection.

In this lecture, students learn how an xx e injection can access the passwd file from a web application, explore its contents, and discuss security impacts and reporting with Burp Suite.

Learn how to perform XSS injection using XML external entities, encoding techniques, and bypass filters to gain access via scripts in WordPress media.

Discover how to identify xss injections in json get methods, analyze how scripts bypass filters, and understand reflected scripting in web inputs.

Explore how XXE vulnerabilities enable denial of service against soap-based web services, analyzing how excessive entity processing and local file exposure can exhaust server resources.

Analyze how a xxe vulnerability exposes files and directory contents via a site audit and proof-of-concept, showing encoding, decoding, and the impact on bug bounty programs.

analyze a blind xxe attack using a PowerPoint file, showing how external entities enable accessing server files, revealing password hashes and hostnames, and pursuing bounties.

Explore authentication and session management vulnerabilities in web apps, learn how session_id and cookies enable risk, and review techniques like hidden form fields, URL rewriting, and HttpSession to protect users.

Explore captcha-based authentication by inspecting login requests, cookies, and server responses; validate captchas, adjust inputs, and troubleshoot errors to master web security testing.

Understand how captchas support authentication, distinguish humans from bots, and how intercepting login requests and proxy setups reveal potential bypass scenarios in web applications.

Explore methods for bypassing captcha in web authentication, focusing on cookie handling, request manipulation, and login flow analysis to understand associated security vulnerabilities.

Explore session management flaws and cookie-based vulnerabilities in user login, demonstrating how cookies can be hijacked to bypass authentication and compromise sessions.

Explore bypassing authentication through sql injection and input manipulation, revealing how attackers may gain admin access by exploiting login forms and error messages.

Explore bypassing authentication by exploiting a username injection to log in as a user. See how an injection can change the login username, enabling access as admin or Bob.

Learn how brute forcing can bypass authentication by testing multiple usernames and passwords through get and post requests, analyzing server responses, and understanding authentication vulnerabilities.

Bypass authentication by brute-forcing login credentials using loaded username and password lists in an intruder tool, revealing successful logins such as admin.

Identify broken authentication by examining brute forcing, dictionary attacks, and weak passwords, and spot session flaws such as lingering login after closing a browser tab and flawed timeouts.

Discover how broken access control enables reading sensitive files and directories through a spidering demonstration. Identify signs of unauthorized functionality and learn to check browser proxy settings and directory exposure.

Explore how admin panel access without authentication can occur, analyze insecure object reference issues from third party reports, and review bug bounty findings to strengthen IT security.

Explore insecure object references and how exposing object references in parameters can bypass access controls and allow accessing or modifying other users' files and data.

Learn to bypass client-side scripts and change usernames to test access control, uncovering insecure data object references and web vulnerability for ethical hacking and bug bounty.

Explore how price manipulation occurs in online shopping carts and payment gateways by tampering with hidden html fields, using proxy tools, and testing vulnerable applications for bug bounty opportunities.

Learn local file inclusion techniques to read and reveal server files through crafted requests. Examine how parameters, directory traversal, and file system access enable viewing text files and sensitive data.

Master local file inclusion (lfi) techniques in ethical hacking to access and disclose file contents, including password files, help files, and source code via crafted urls.

Discover how hackers modify user data by manipulating input fields and requests, revealing direct object reference risks and how secrets can be changed within web applications.

Explore missing function level access control, a broken access control vulnerability where apps fail to verify user rights for actions, potentially exposing admin pages to authenticated non-admin users.

Learn how not setting the secure flag on login cookies enables session hijacking, even when httponly is set, demonstrated on an asp.net site with two accounts.

Learn about subdomain takeover vulnerabilities by examining domains, subdomains, and DNS, and discover how CNAME entries to external services like Heroku, AWS, or GitHub can be hijacked.

Master subdomain enumeration with the sublist3r tool, querying Google, Yahoo, Ask, Netcraft, and other engines using a wordlist, and implement Python to automate subdomain discovery for targeted domains.

Discover subdomain alteration and permutation techniques to generate subdomains with Altdns and Sublist3r, check for valid subdomains, and explore potential subdomain takeover for bug bounty.

Discover subdomains by parallelizing DNS probes using dns-parallel-prober and altDNS, build subdomain lists, and run Python scripts to extract and validate results.

learn how to locate a CName and map subdomains to their target domains, assess whether a subdomain is authorized, and evaluate its DNS records for bug bounty opportunities.

Explore how to locate subdomain services using different tools and techniques, identify CNAME records, and recognize errors when a subdomain is not in use.

discover how to bypass wildcard dns subdomains using a subdomain finder tool, enumerate subdomains under a single domain, and assess the security implications of subdomain exposure.

Explore secure misconfiguration by accessing unprotected files and directories, using burp suite to spider Mutillidae and reveal admin config.inc and authentication bypass vulnerabilities for bug bounty.

Learn how sql injection targets misconfigurations of user details, exploring blind, union-based, classic, and error-based techniques to bypass logins and view account data.

Learn how web tampering in url methods and parameter tampering manipulate get and post data to modify app behavior and reveal vulnerabilities through a blog example.

The report demonstrates parameter tampering in an Adobe shopping cart by intercepting post requests and altering xml payloads to set prices to zero, exposing the payment gateway risks.

Identify how http parameter pollution in urls arises from unsanitized input, enabling manipulation of query strings in get or post requests. See examples from filters and burp suite tools.

Learn how sql injection can reveal xml data and gain unauthorized access, and how xpath injection targets xml queries built from user input to compromise databases.

Learn password guessing for user login, including brute force and dictionary attack methods, and how these techniques are demonstrated in testing and authentication security.

Learn how union based sql injection combines multiple selects to extract data from databases, identify database names, and expose user credentials with example query structures.

Demonstrate manual sql injection on a login form to reveal database vulnerabilities, focusing on crafting input in username and password fields to understand how authentication can be bypassed.

Learn how sql injection can target http headers, especially the user-agent field, and see how crafted payloads in the user-agent string can cause errors and reveal data via server responses.

Explore SQL injection concepts with a focus on bypassing login and extracting data from databases using union queries, single quotes, comments like -- and #, and order by.

Attackers can retrieve passwords when the password database uses simple, unsorted hashes and user data remains unencrypted, especially with file uploading.

Explore open redirection of URL vulnerabilities, including unvalidated redirects and URL forwarding, using get parameters, testing with Burp Suite, repeater, and observing HTTP 302 redirects.

Explore how open redirect vulnerabilities arise from parameterized return URLs, learn to reproduce redirects with Burp Suite, intercept, and use Repeater, and analyze cases that redirect to sites like twitter.com.

Discover unvalidated redirecting of URL and open redirects, using Burp Suite, proxies, and forward URL parameters, with examples from OWASP and real-world attack scenarios.

Explore real-world examples of directory path traversal, showing lab experiments that reveal password files and other sensitive data caused by security issues.

This live example shows ethical hacking for bug bounty by demonstrating how to detect and exploit XSS using intercept tools, input manipulation, and browser rendering to verify vulnerabilities.

Demonstrate a simple xss injection for get and post methods, showing how input appears in the response and how to test insecure cross-site scripting in this ethical hacking exercise.

Explore header information injection by examining how headers like user agent and cookies can be manipulated, intercepted, and analyzed to understand web request vulnerabilities.

Examine how an evaluation function processes string input and how unsanitized inputs can enable script injection, with examples of encoding, cookies, and resource requests and mitigation ideas.