Mistakes To Avoid in Your Bug Bounty Career- Part 2

Hi, Ajak Amico’s welcome back to another blog. Today, I will share the bug bounty mistakes, which would destroy your career, if you haven't watched Part 1 of this series, I have posted the link below, Before starting, if you haven’t subscribed to our channel, do subscribe, guys.

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Part-1 https://medium.com/@Ajakcybersecurity/bug-bounty-mistakes-i-made-in-2023-so-that-you-can-avoid-in-2024-3737663807fc

As for cybersecurity and bug bounty, it’s always a daily learning process, you can see each day different zero-day exploits would be discovered, and security researchers would post, different blogs and bug bounty tips every day on social media platforms. I know people who do bug bounty, will be frustrated to the core, as you get many duplicates and N/A, but it’s ok to take a small break. but just make sure it doesn't go beyond a certain period because you can miss so many tips and blogs from security researchers out there. and wise process to stay in the race is to read blogs and watch POCs on Medium and YouTube.

It’s always important to take notes when you do your bug bounty journey if you see a bug bounty tip on Twitter, and you directly implement in a couple of sites, and if that doesn’t work you scroll down to the next bug bounty tips, but it doesn’t work like that, you just need to save the tips for future purpose, you just need to create a separate folder for bug bounty tips, and make note of each and everyone, so that you can hunt later. and that’s the same case for recon too, each security researchers have a different methodology, you always need to take it down, and choose which recon suits you. another tip, master Nuclei to find easy bug-bounty flaws

This is very important when you do your bug bounty journey, when you get hall of fame and bounties, You wish to start your own brand, when you do that, you put your legs into many social media ponds, such as YouTube, Medium, Twitter and Instagram. but make sure you just need to put the same and equal amount of effort into building your community, and when you concentrate on this, your bug bounty journey slows down parallelly, because that's how human psychology works, you tend to go bigger if you get your desired goals. Make your mind clear, if you work on yourself, choose any one platform to build your network, and my suggestion Is to go with LinkedIn as you can able to build huge connections, and chances are high that recruiters will directly recruit you into top MNCs.

This was one of the worst mistakes which I made, I used to do bug bounty and I was good and steady in that, with Hall of Fames and bounties, but gradually my interest went to the blue team, especially digital forensics, upon my Master’s in the UK in Cybersecurity, I opted Digital forensics which fully fell on the blue team, so I started to Prepare for the blue team and It made a huge career gap on my bug bounty career, especially with hands-on experience, but only good thing which happened to me was, I expertised both in red and blue team. and My ultimate aim was to build a brand, so it worked out perfectly for me.

It’s not only in bug bounty or cybersecurity, any domain you take, networking with people is so important, so Connect with people all around the world, ask them how they went through their bug bounty journey, ask them what resources they use or the checklist they use, and try to work together, so that you can both share and learn on both sides, follow security researchers in Twitter, Linkedin, youtube and medium, they share their personal bug bounty tips, this will help you to stay in the bug bounty race.

TIP: To start a conversation give a genuine compliment to the person whom you gonna talk. Don’t start with Hi or Hello, ask them,

‘Hey I really like your content, hope you continue your journey well’ in this case the opposite person will definitely reply, and then you can ask your questions or build a convo.

Always remember HOF is bit easy, but bounties will be a bit hard, especially if you are a beginner, all you need to do is learn and practice consistently and have a bit of patience, Victory will be yours! I hope you would have learned some information from this blog if so, kindly press that follow button for further updates. Best wishes from Ajak Cybersecurity. ❤️

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