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cve_1337_1998 | Security Researcher Profile


Security researcher cve_1337_1998 has already helped fix 580 vulnerabilities.



Researcher reputation:  130

Real name:
Pankaj Kumar Thakur

About me:
CISO RTO L- 3 CEH (MASTER) 30x CVE's

Contact email:
email: [email protected]

Alternative Contacts:
[email protected]

Certifications & Diplomas:
CEH-MASTER
Red Team Operator L-3

Experience in Application Security
over 5 years

Award / Bug Bounty I prefer:
If you believe I've assisted in securing your website, please don't let my efforts go to waste. I would greatly appreciate your support through a monetary bounty (PAYPAL) or recommendation.

Halls of Fame:
CHECKPOINT,
TRENDMICRO,
GOOGLE,
MICROSOFT, 3500

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Ethics and Rules:
Pankaj Kumar Thakur is required to abide by the ethics and rules of the Open Bug Bounty project. If you reasonably believe that rules are not respected, please report this to us.

Recommendations and Acknowledgements

@OnePlusSecurity     21 October, 2019
    Twitter OnePlusSecurity Security Team from OnePlus:
Many thanks to Pankaj for alerting us to a vulnerability in our website, and suggesting ways of fixing it. Great work!
@judythai     22 September, 2020
    Twitter judythai J Thai from University of California:
Thank you, Pankaj, for sending such a detailed report to help us reproduce and fix a security issue. You were also very responsive to our follow-up. Appreciate your work!
@rfrancis     11 March, 2020
    Twitter rfrancis Russ Smith from Oklahoma State University:
Thanks for the prompt reply and information on what, fortunately, turned out to be no big deal but could readily have been one. Much appreciated.
@firoz0211     7 February, 2020
    Twitter firoz0211 Firoz Pathan from UA:
Pankaj is very helpful and send us detailed information about an important security issue. Thanks a lot Pankaj :)
@TheLinx     7 February, 2020
    Twitter TheLinx Linus from love2d.org:
Very fast and detailed communication helped solve a vulnerability in a short time.
@firoz0211     6 February, 2020
    Twitter firoz0211 Firoz Pathan from UA:
Pankaj is very helpful. He helped us for an important security issue and thanks to him our website is now secured.
@UwTableau     16 January, 2020
    Twitter UwTableau UW Tableau from University of Washington:
Thank you to Pankaj Thakur. Because of their vulnerability report, we were able to resolve a vulnerability in a timely manner, and his willingness to respond to followup is GREATLY appreciated.
@PaulMar23292621     14 October, 2019
    Twitter PaulMar23292621 Responsible Disclosure from A1 Telekom Austria:
Pankaj Thakur sent us a good report, so we were quickly able to reproduce and fix the issue. Thank you very much for the good work.
Best regards,
RD @ A1

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Research Statistics



Total reports:654
Total reports on VIP sites:28
Total patched vulnerabilities:580
Recommendations received:8
Active since:29.04.2019

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