The ultimate beginner’s guide to Burp Suite

In the early days of hacking, dedicated forums were the primary source of learning and sharing information among cybersecurity enthusiasts. Dafydd Stuttard, who chose the user handle "PortSwigger," eventually became a penetration tester and created Burp Suite, a web testing toolkit that helps hackers intercept and modify requests and responses between browsers and websites. The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is used to facilitate web traffic, with clients like browsers sending requests for resources such as HTML files, CSS files, JavaScript files, image files, and video files. Burp Suite's Community Edition provides a robust set of tools for thorough web security assessments, including the Dashboard, Target, Proxy, Intruder, Repeater, Sequencer, Decoder, Comparer, Logger, Organizer, and Extensions tabs.