Q&A with Hacker Personality Shivam Vashisht

This is an interview with Shivam Vashisht (aka 'bull'), a full-time ethical hacker on HackerOne from India. He describes his path into hacking, the types of bugs he prefers to find (server-side issues like SSRF, RCE, SQLi, cryptographic validation failures, plus logical and CORS/OAuth misconfigurations), his bug bounty experiences and motivations, and his view that bug bounty programs are valuable though not yet widely adopted in India. He also offers advice to aspiring ethical hackers to read widely and learn from peers.