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Popping a shell on the Oculus developer portal

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Re: Popping a shell on the Oculus developer portal

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I don't know any program except FB with such bounties for bugs in web apps. If you want to hack for money, focus on FB forget about others.

Google has one: https://www.google.com/about/appsecurity/reward-program/

They pay ten times less

Re: Popping a shell on the Oculus developer portal

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I don't know any program except FB with such bounties for bugs in web apps. If you want to hack for money, focus on FB forget about others.

https://hackerone.com/programs

Which one is profitable there?

Re: Popping a shell on the Oculus developer portal

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I haven't seen the BENCHMARK trick before. It's very clever - a variation on timing failed login/password attempts. This is a clear and effective writeup. Congrats OP.

> It's very clever - a variation on timing failed login/password attempts.

Can you explain? To me it just looks like a way to prove the exploit exists without revealing any actual injections.

Re: Popping a shell on the Oculus developer portal

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I haven't seen the BENCHMARK trick before. It's very clever - a variation on timing failed login/password attempts. This is a clear and effective writeup. Congrats OP.

> It's very clever - a variation on timing failed login/password attempts. Can you explain? To me it just looks like a way to prove the exploit exists without revealing any actual injections.

It's a pretty common technique for exploiting Blind SQLi. You can use this as the one of the Branches in a SELECT IF to be able to determine the value of something in the DB.

https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Blind_SQL_Injection#Time-bas...

Re: Popping a shell on the Oculus developer portal

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Security researchers are some of the most banal people. But I won't argue with $25k. ;-P

I don't think so. There's creativity in hacking any server. You won't find a straight same path every time. I think security researchers are the most patient people or most determined.

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Sign up for Bugcrowd and give it a go in your spare time. I would say it pays really well, in that it forces you to exercise and stretch your brain, over time you'll start getting better and work to the point you could quit your day job and do security full time.

How do things like bugcrowd (and bug bounties in general) work from a legal point of view? It seems very risky to go poking around without some kind of formal contract with the target.

Bugcrowd has a contract with the target, and with you.
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