Bug Bounty And Penetration Testing Guide If You Are Starting Today
Step 0: Take care of your mental health. For that read amazing probably the greatest spiritual book of all time “Be as you are” by Ramana Maharshi. You may be wondering why I advised you to read the mental health book in Ethical hacking | Bug bounty hunting tips. Trust me you need will need this.
Step 1: Remember This Quote. There’s one saying that if you want to master something, copy the masters. Do what they do. Follow what they do. Behave what they do. You will soon start to be like what they are now.
Step 2: Practise from nahamsec youtube channel. Practise his recon video. Do what he does. Copy that. You will soon start to adopt the good habits. You may think now what am I doing theses? Why am I doing these? But after months of practise you will soon feel the gradual change in yourself recon abilities, penetration testing abilities.
Step 3: Inorder to understand the writeups, you need to understand the ethical hacking languages, bug bounty hunting languages.Take udemy courses of nahamsec (Intro to bug bounty), rohit gautam (recon course), offensive appraoch to bug hunting.
Step 4: In free time watch the videos from youtube channel like bugcrowd, stok, insiderphp, farahawa. Practise recon live sessions of nahamsec in free time too. You will soon understand why I am saying this to you as you follow doing these.
Step 5: Take udemy bug bounty hunting courses, burp suite courses. Practise it in such a way that you just ate whole course. It will take time. Incase of demotivation. Remember step 0 is there to guide. That’s why I wrote about step 0 in first case.
Step 5: It will take time. Slowly gradually after months of practise you will start to see change in yourself. Yes you heard it right, give yourself at least few months time to learn and practise.