YESWEHACK PROPHILE ON EBODA

December 11, 2019

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8Wed, 11 Dec 2019 12:04:26 +0100 (CET)
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10Handle: eboda ║
11Handle origin: first name + last name (i'm very creative :>)
12║ or maybe: 'adobe'[::-1], who knows...
13Age of your body: 29
14Produced in: Germany
15Urlz: https://bugscale.ch / @eboda_ ║
16Computers: Just got the new Thinkpad X1 extreme ║
17 (I am part of the cult worshipping ║
18║ the Thinkpad nipple)
19Superpowers: I can fly ║
20Life in a sentence: Eat Sleep Pwn Repeat (höhö)
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23QUOTES
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25Any man who must say "I am king" is no true king at all ║
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28ARMORY
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30Mostly just Burp
31I do not do any automated testing or crazy recon, so I don't use many ║
32║ other specific tools.
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35▀▄█▓▒░ Hello, what's your background?:
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37└─ Hi! Professionally I was working as a pentester in Switzerland
38 before starting to do bug hunting and research full-time.
39 Less professionally, I used to play a lot of CTFs with my team Eat
40 Sleep Pwn Repeat.
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43▀▄█▓▒░ How did you come to Bug Bounty ?
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45└─ I did a bit of bug bounty hunting on and off a few years back.
46 This year I quit my pentesting job and decided to pursue bug hunting
47 as a full-time career. Now that it's up to me to choose targets to
48 work on, I can spend all my time doing cool research on targets
49 I personally am interested in or that use some cool tech :)
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52▀▄█▓▒░ You have practiced others BB platforms, what are the Pro & Cons,
53with your experience on those platforms? / What are your
54│ expectations?
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56└─ I am active on multiple platforms because it allows me to reach
57 more targets. When it comes to choosing a program to work on I am
58 quite nit-picky, so the more choice the better!
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60 Some things I'm looking for in a program:
61 - Great payout (obviously, who are we kidding...)
62 - Well defined scope. I don't like recon at all, so I prefer
63 to be given a small list of applications to pwn
64 - Does it have source code available? HUGE plus
65 - Responsive and fair team. Can't really know that before your
66 first reports
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68 My expectations to programs are pretty straight-forward. I took the
69 time and effort to test your application and (hopefully) report a
70 bug, in return I expect fair treatment according to the rules you
71 have published :)
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73 Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. If you try
74 to pull some tricks I will just move on to another target.
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76 As to BB platforms themselves, it is very important for me that the
77 communication is efficient. It's just so much more pleasant to report
78 bugs when you have professional triagers who understand what you
79 are talking about and can intervene if you face problems with
80 programs.
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83▀▄█▓▒░ Appart from Bug Bounty you seem to collaborate on a lot of hacker
84| events, what is your feeling on how the community is evolving?
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86└─ Recently, together with some friends we have created a company
87 called Bugscale to participate in bug bounties and do security
88 research in general. It allows us to collaborate on our work
89 efficiently, since we all chill in the same office.
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91 In Switzerland the BB community is still in its infancy, as there is
92 not many BB programs and you can probably count the hunters living
93 from it on one hand. As far as we know, we are the first company
94 in Switzerland to actually make a living off of Bug Bounties.
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96 This year has seen enormous change for us though. Not only did
97 YesWeHack create a subsidiary in Switzerland, but additionally BB
98 programs are becoming more mainstream with conferences dedicating
99 their theme to BB (see Swiss Cyber Storm for example)
100 and Swiss companies actively trying to launch their BB programs.
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102 The future is definitely bright for us and especially in Switzerland
103 the community will evolve immensely in the upcoming years!
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106▀▄█▓▒░ What was your first computer?
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108└─ My first computer was mostly used to play CS1.6 and Warcraft 3 :D
109 Didn't do much hacking back then...
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112▀▄█▓▒░ Do you remember your first successful exploitation?
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114└─ Not really to be honest... I guess it wasn't worth remembering :D
115 When I was younger I was very much into something I would describe
116 SQL injection "competitions". Basically, someone would post a
117 website with a SQLi vuln and a WAF and the challenge was to dump
118 all table names with a single query for example. You would end up
119 with these huge SQL queries that bypass the WAF, concat results
120 into variables and then dump those. It was kind of the thing that
121 got me interested in security in the first place (that and CTFs).
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126└─ The thrill of finding a cool vuln and writing an exploit for it.
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128 Doing things I don't enjoy turns me down (who would have thought :D).
129 In the BB context this might include things like recon or writing
130 reports :>>
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135└─ No of course not! jk... I have relocated to beautiful Switzerland
136 some time ago, so there is no shortage of AFK life outside in
137 the mountains.
138 Depending on the season, I like to hike, ski or fly with my
139 paraglider :)
140 Also I'm into CS:GO, but that's technically not AFK I guess :D
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143▀▄█▓▒░ What is the future?
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145└─ In Europe and Switzerland specifically I think we will see a sharp
146 increase in companies adopting bug bounty programs. With YesWeHack
147 being in Switzerland itself now, it will make it easier for
148 companies to overcome initial hesitation or uncertainty regarding
149 bug bounties.
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151 In any case, there will always be bugs, so in one way or another
152 we will be able to keep busy ;)
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