Web application hacking tools

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

Burp Suite is a tool of the class called intercepting or attacking proxy, which allows its users ...

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