Needless to say, with every new day web applications play a bigger role in the life of the modern Internet than they have ever played before and their security stays among the most important and complicated tasks for various companies.
Most of them are custom written proprietary applications developed without proper application security management processes in place and often without security considerations and controls. That is why probably the most demanded penetration testing service nowadays is web application security analysis and we are going to review the most popular tool used by web hackers and pentesters.
Burp Suite is a tool of the class called intercepting or attacking proxy, which allows its users to inspect and manipulate web traffic passing through it.
There are other free and non-free intercepting (attack) proxies available. However, the authors of this book got used to and stuck to Burp Suite, and that is why we are going to describe...