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Bugcrowd is the company blog at blog.bugcrowd.com, writing about security. Since 2013, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 31 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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31mentions?
15HN people?
2013–2017first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 18 in 2014

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Bugcrowd posts that give practical advice for security researchers and bug hunters, including note-taking techniques, a getting-started guide for bug bounty hunting, and legal risks of testing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

What Hacker News says?

  1. There's a blog post on Bugcrowd about note taking techniques. Might be helpful for you! :) https://blog.bugcrowd.com/the-importance-of-notes-session-tr...

    Comment linking /the-importance-of-notes-session-tracking-bug-bounty-hunter-methodology

    on “Ask HN: How do you take notes when you're Bug Hunting or Pentesting?”
  2. Submitted Bugcrowd Raises $6M Series A as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  3. There are a ton of different directions that you can head in and focus on. I encourage you to start/look at stuff that you're genuinely interested in and excited about. I've written a "Getting Started" guide for security researchers that people have said is helpful. I hope it helps you out :) https://blog.bugcrowd.com/getting-started-bug-bounty-hunter-...

    Comment linking /getting-started-bug-bounty-hunter-methodology

    on “How does one become a security researcher?”
  4. Submitted Reverse Engineering Pokemon Go as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  5. Here's a blog post that offers advice: https://blog.bugcrowd.com/problem-cold-testing/ tl;dr The laws aren't going to side in your favor. Assuming this is a US-based airline, there are potential laws you should be aware of (Computer Fraud and Abuse Act & another one). But from this very high level, it sounds like you did a good job of cooperating and not disclosing it "inappropriately". It just ends up rubbing peopl…

    Comment linking /problem-cold-testing/

    on “a thread”
  6. Submitted Breaking Bugcrowd's CAPTCHA using Google Tesseract OCR as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Startup Security: 6 guidelines to handling a vulnerability submission as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Top Bugcrowd Security Hackers of 2013 as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted On Oracle, Mary Ann Davidson, and the dark side of security research as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Using a Braun Shaver to Bypass XSS Audit and WAF as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Bug Bounties Drive Sales? OR Why Market Your Bug Bounty Program as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted When to properly reward a bug bounty submission as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Google Sites: A Tale of Five Vulnerabilities as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Interview w/ Hacker awarded Facebook's largest bug bounty to date as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Target, Neiman Marcus, and Michaels breaches – We can do better as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted How to bypass 3rd-degree profiles in LinkedIn as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Attacking zone page metadata in iOS 7 & OS X Mavericks as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted List of currently acttive bug bounty programs as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Advice from a Researcher: Hunting XXE for Fun and Profit as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Writing Up a POC as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted Show HN: crowdsourced penetration tests via bug bounties as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Example of Covert Redirect and Early Warning bug as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted Bugsquash: Help Us Test OpenSSL and Make the Internet Safer as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted List of Heartbeat exploit proof of concepts as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted HP Zero Day Initiative’s vulnerability fix timeline now 120 days as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted How to be sweet to your security researchers as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted Github starts bug bounty program as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  28. Submitted The need for Responsible Disclosure policies - 16 yo hacker Joshua Rogers as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  29. Submitted Top Bugcrowd Charity Hackers of 2013 as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  30. Submitted Three ways to avoid duplicates in bug bounty programs as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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