Episode 50: ­Mathias 'Fall in a well' Karlsson - Bug Bounty Prophet
Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast21 Joulu 2023

Episode 50: ­Mathias 'Fall in a well' Karlsson - Bug Bounty Prophet

Episode 50: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast, Justin catches up with hacking master Mathias Karlsson, and talks about burnout, collaboration, and the importance of specialization. Then we dive into the technical details of MXSS and XSLT, character encoding, and give some predictions of what Bug Bounty might look like in the future…

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Episode Resources

How to Differentiate Yourself as a Hunter

MutateMethods

hackaplaneten

Article About Unicode and Character Sets

Byte Order Mark:

Character Encodings

ShapeCatcher

WAF Bypass

BountyDash

EXPLOITING HTTP'S HIDDEN ATTACK-SURFACE

Timestamps:

(00:00:00) Introduction

(00:10:06) Automation Setup and Assetnote Origins

(00:16:49) Sharing Tips, and Content Creation

(00:22:27) Collaboration and Optimization

(00:36:44) Working at Detectify

(00:51:45) Bug Bounty Burnout

(00:56:15) Early Days of Bug Bounty and Future Predictions

(01:19:00) Nerdsnipeability

(01:29:38) MXSS and XSLT

(01:54:20) Learning through being wrong

(02:00:15) Go-to Vulns

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