Episode 133: Building Hacker Communities - Bug Bounty Village, getDisclosed, and the LHE Squad

Episode 133: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast we’re joined by Harley and Ari from H1 to talk some about community management roles within Bug Bounty, as well as discuss the evolution of Bug Bounty Village at DEFCON, and what they’ve got in store this year.
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====== This Week in Bug Bounty ======
BBV Platform Panel about Triage (x.com/BugBountyDEFCON/status/1947763983584313699)
YesWeHACK Makes Debut at Black Hat USA 2025 (yeswehack.com/page/yeswehack-makes-our-debut-a…)
New Dojo challenge featuring a time-based token prediction combined PyYAML deserialization (dojo-yeswehack.com/challenge-of-the-month/dojo…)
GMSGadget (gmsgadget.com)
====== Resources ======
Bug Bounty Village (bugbountydefcon.com)
Sign up for the Disclosed Newsletter (getdisclosed.com)
Disclosed Online (disclosedonline.com)
Harley's Youtube Channel (youtube.com/infinitelogins)
====== Timestamps ======
(00:00:00) Introduction
(00:05:51) Bug Stories and Hacking Journeys
(00:32:37) Community Management within Bug Bounty
(00:39:43) Bug Bounty Village - Origin & 2025 Plans
(01:02:39) Disclosed Online and Harley's Upcoming Ebook