As a young professional in cybersecurity, do you often feel so dumb that you can’t understand some concepts? Maybe my experience can help. My Background I studied Information Security in college. We had the usual foundational CS and math courses, along with cryptography. Back then, the security field seemed straightforward—either you were an attacker or a defender—even though I had no idea how either actually worked. Later, I interned at two companies, where I learned about web pentesting and Active Directory security.

So, I almost submit my first valid bug report… What Happened The other night, I finally decided to give bug bounty a try. I found a VDP program and let ChatGPT write me a recon script. That recon script returned with several subdomains, and when I went through them, a weird domain caught my eye. What the hell is ‘whoami.xx.xx.com’? Out of curiosity, I opened that in my browser. Holy cow, it looks like a debugging page with an internal IP!