Episode 174: Saving Bug Bounty Programs + AMPScript, tessl & GPT-5.5

Episode 174: Saving Bug Bounty Programs + AMPScript, tessl & GPT-5.5

From Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast by Justin Gardner (Rhynorater), Joseph Thacker (Rez0), & Brandyn Murtagh (gr3pme)

May 14, 2026 · 1h 10m · Season 1 · Episode 174

About this episode

The episode discusses advice for bug bounty platforms and covers various cybersecurity writeups.

Episode 174: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast we follow up from last episode with some advice for BB platforms, as well as cover a slew of writeups from Searchlight Cyber, watchTowr, and Starstrike. Follow us on twitter at: https://x.com/ctbbpodcast Got any ideas and suggestions? Feel free to send us any feedback here: info@criticalthinkingpodcast.io Shoutout to YTCracker for the awesome intro music! ====== Links ====== Follow your hosts Rhynorater, rez0 and gr3pme on X:  https://x.com/Rhynorater https://x.com/rez0__ https://x.com/gr3pme Critical Research Lab: https://lab.ctbb.show/   ====== Ways to Support CTBBPodcast ====== Hop on the CTBB Discord at https://ctbb.show/discord ! We also do Discord subs at $25, $10, and $5 - premium subscribers get access to private masterclasses, exploits, tools, scripts, un-redacted bug reports, etc. You can also find some hacker swag at https://ctbb.show/merch ! Need a Pentest? We just launched CTBB Pentests! https://pentest.ctbb.show/ Hack full time? Check out the Full-Time Hunter’s Guild! https://ctbb.show/fthg ====== This Week in Bug Bounty ====== COST, AI frontier models and more: A measured take on the…

People in this episode

Hosts: Justin Gardner, Joseph Thacker, Brandyn Murtagh

Topics covered

  • bug bounty programs
  • AI in security
  • cybersecurity writeups
  • pentesting
  • community support

Keywords

  • bug bounty
  • cybersecurity
  • AI models
  • pentesting
  • community support

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Searchlight Cyber, watchTowr, Starstrike, CTBB Podcast, CTBB Discord, CTBB Pentests, Full-Time Hunter’s Guild

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