Books

Books that should be part of every web application security tester's library, especially for using Burp Suite:

  • If you are a web application penetration tester, you should get the Web Application Hacker's Handbook, Dafydd Stuttard and Marcus Pinto, Wiley. This is the de facto book on web application security.
  • Get the Instant Burp Suite Starter, Luca Carettoni, Packt Publishing, to get started quickly on using Burp Suite.
  • The Tangled Web: A Guide to Securing Modern Web Applications, Michal Zalewski, No Starch Press. He is the author of the extremely informative Browser Security Handbook as well: https://code.google.com/p/browsersec/wiki/Main.

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