---
id: 3315
title: "Tips from Top Hackers – Bug Hunting methodology and the importance of writing quality submissions"
source_domain: bugcrowd.com
source_url: "https://www.bugcrowd.com/blog/tips-from-top-hackers-bug-hunting-methodology-and-the-importance-of-writing-quality-submissions/"
published_at: "2016-10-18T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["bug-bounty", "reconnaissance", "bugcrowd", "methodology", "interview", "subdomain-discovery", "brett-buerhaus"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/3315"
lang: en
---

# Tips from Top Hackers – Bug Hunting methodology and the importance of writing quality submissions

## Summary

Bugcrowd interviews top-ranked researcher Brett Buerhaus on his bug hunting methodology: reviewing scope, recon with Google, Shodan and Censys, nmap scanning, fuzzing, and building proof-of-concepts.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** bugcrowd.com
- **Published:** 2016-10-18T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://www.bugcrowd.com/blog/tips-from-top-hackers-bug-hunting-methodology-and-the-importance-of-writing-quality-submissions/
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/3315