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Season 1

June 15, 2023

Episode 23: Hacker Loadouts

Episode 23: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast, we delve into a different aspect of hardware - Our personal loadouts. We go through the equipment and gear we use to get our jobs done, and share …

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June 8, 2023

Episode 22: Chipping Away at Hardware Hacking

Episode 22: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast we talk about some basic/intermediate concepts related to Hardware Hacking. Specifically, we dive into extracting data from eMMC chips in order to get our ...

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June 1, 2023

Episode 21: Chill Chat with Legendary DoD Hacker Corben Leo

In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast, we chat with Corben Leo about his journey in bug bounty hunting and ethical hacking. We discuss the state of DNS rebinding in 2023, a Twitter thread by Douglas Day …

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May 25, 2023

Episode 20: Hacker Brain Hacks - Overcoming Bug Bounty's Mental Tolls

Episode 20: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast, we dive into the world of "hacker brain hacks'' and overcoming challenges in bug bounty hunting. We discuss custom word lists, the rising popularity of Ca...

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May 18, 2023

Episode 19: Audit Code, Earn Bounties (Part 2) + Zip-Snip, Sitecore, …

Episode 19: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast we further discuss some tips and tricks for finding vulns once you’ve got source code and some banger tweets/tools that popped up in our feed this week. Fo...

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May 11, 2023

Episode 18: Audit Code, Earn Bounties

Episode 18: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast, we dive into everything source-code related: how to get source-code and what to do with it once you have. This episode is packed with great examples of su...

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May 4, 2023

Episode 17: LA Live Chat with Five Legendary Hackers

Episode 17: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast we talk with five legendary hackers about some of their favorite bugs. Live. From LA. Corben Leo “Lorben CEO” @hacker_ Sam “ZLZ” “ZOZL” “The King” Curry @s...

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April 20, 2023

Episode 16: The Hacker's Toolkit

Episode 16: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast we talk about the hacker’s toolkit. Joel and Justin talk about their VPS setup, go-to hacking tools, most often used Linux commands, and the ways they duct...

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April 13, 2023

Episode 15: The Israeli Million-Dollar Hacker

Episode 15: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast we talk with the latest Million-Dollar bug bounty hunter: @naglinagli . He talks about his climb from $1,000 in bounties to $1,000,000, recon tips and tric...

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April 6, 2023

Episode 14: Mobile Hacking Dynamic Analysis w/ Frida + Random Hacker …

Episode 14: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast we talk about Dynamic Analysis within Mobile Hacking and a bunch of random hacker stuff. It's a good time. Enjoy the pod. Follow us on Twitter at: @ctbbpod...

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March 30, 2023

Episode 13: How to Find a Good BBP + Acropalypse + ZDI

Episode 13: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast we talk about how to determine if a bug bounty program is good or not from the policy page. We also cover some news including Acropalypse, ZDI's Pwn2Own …

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March 23, 2023

Episode 12: JHaddix on Hacker->Hacker CISO, OG Hacking Techniques,…

Episode 12: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast we talk with Jason Haddix about his eclectic hacking techniques, Hacker -> Hacker CISO life, and some crazy vulns he found. This episode is chock full of a...

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March 16, 2023

Episode 11: CV$$, Web Cache Deception, and SSTI

Episode 11: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast we talk about CVSS (the good, the bad, and the ugly), Web Cache Deception (an underrated vuln class) and a sick SSTI Joel and Fisher found. Follow us …

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March 9, 2023

Episode 10: The Life of a Full-Time Bug Bounty Hunter + BB News + Rep…

Episode 10: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast we talk about what its like to be a full-time bug bounty hunter, a tonne of bug bounty news, and some great report summaries from Justin’s two mentees: …

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March 2, 2023

Episode 9: Headless Browser SSRF & RebindMultiA Tool Release + Web3 B…

Episode 9: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast we talk about Headless Browser SSRF and drop a tool called RebindMultiA. Joel also walks us through a web3 bug and we cover some bug bounty news from …

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Feb. 22, 2023

Episode 8: PostMessage Bugs, CSS Injection, and Bug Drops

Episode 8: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast we drop some critical bugs which leak raw credit card info. We also discuss some CSS Injection & PostMessage related techniques. It's a short one but a good...

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Feb. 16, 2023

Episode 7: PortSwigger Top 10, TruffleSecurity Drama, and More!

Episode 7: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast we talk about PortSwigger's Top 10 Web Hacking Techniques of 2022 (link below), some drama surrounding TruffleSecurity's XSS Hunter, and, as always, some gr...

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Feb. 9, 2023

Episode 6: Mobile Hacking Attack Vectors with Teknogeek (Joel Margoli…

Episode 6: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast we sit down with mobile hacking legend Joel Margolis and get the scoop on his approach to popping bugs on Android. Follow us on twitter at: @ctbbpodcast We'...

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Feb. 2, 2023

Episode 4: H1-407 Event Madness & Takeaways Part 2 w/ Special Guest S…

Episode 4: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast we have part two of our series on the H1-407 HackerOne Live Hacking Event. This time, we have a special guest SpaceRaccoon ( @spaceraccoonsec ) talking abou...

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Feb. 2, 2023

Episode 5: AI Security, Hacking WiFi, the New XSS Hunter, and more

Episode 5: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast we talk about the new XSS Hunter, MD5 collisions and using ChatGPT for security, and much more! Follow us on twitter at: @ctbbpodcast We're new to this podc...

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Jan. 26, 2023

Episode 3: H1-407 Event Madness & Takeaways Part 1

Episode 3: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast we talk about some of the interesting things we’ve learned from participating in HackerOne's H1-407 Live Hacking event. We cover decompiling binaries in var...

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Jan. 18, 2023

Episode 2: Exploit Writing & Automation / Do you need to know how to …

Episode 2: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast we talk about exploit writing/automation, some new tools released in the industry (Of-CORS), the age old question of "Do you have to know how to program to ...

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Jan. 9, 2023

Episode 1: Introductions, Bug Bounty Reports, and BB Tips

Episode 1: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast, Joel Margolis (aka 0xteknogeek) and Justin Gardner (aka Rhynorater) cover introductions, a couple of cool bug bounty reports, and some really helpful BB Ti...

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