This is easy to fix. All we need to do is tell our browser that the Burp CA can be trusted. Because every new installation of Burp generates a different CA, this doesn’t create a risk of somebody else intercepting your traffic surreptitiously with their Burp instance. The actual steps to perform this vary slightly by operating system.
In our blog series on Better API Penetration Testing with Postman we discussed using Postman as the client for testing RESTful service APIs. Insomnia is an MIT-licensed open source alternative to Postman. Its commercial maintainer, Kong, is best known for their microservice API Gateway. Like Postman, Kong offers premium subscriptions for syncing and collaboration functionality. …
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In Part 1 of this series, we got started with Postman and generally creating collections and requests. In Part 2, we set Postman to proxy through Burp Suite, so that we could use its fuzzing and request tampering facilities. In this part, we will dig into some slightly more advanced functionality in Postman that you …
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In Part 1 of this series, I walked through an introduction to Postman, a popular tool for API developers that makes it easier to test API calls. We created a collection, and added a request to it. We also talked about how Postman handles cookies – which is essentially the same way a browser does. …
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This is the first of a multi-part series on testing with Postman. I originally planned for it to be one post, but it ended up being so much content that it would likely be overwhelming if not divided into multiple parts. So here’s the plan: In this post, I’ll give you an introduction to setting …
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Over the last eight years, one of the main focuses of Secure Ideas has been education. One responsibility we take very seriously is that of growing the skills within our clients and the public, with the objective of raising the bar in security. This mindset and core passion of Secure Ideas is because we all …
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UPDATE: Updated the done steps. below. Also changed the links from S3 to Git. Since our founding in 2010 Secure Ideas has always tried to focus on education and increasing the amount of available knowledge in our field. As such we have contributed to courses, presented at conferences around the world and contributed to open …
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This one is for you web penetration testers! This new Burp extension is designed to help with efficiency when you are testing a complex application full of parameters or a series of applications and just do not have enough time to thoroughly analyze each one. It analyzes all the parameters in your in-scope traffic and …
Here’s a quick tip I use to save some time when spinning up Burp Suite on a Mac. I use Burp Suite frequently enough that having an icon on my task bar is warranted. I also like to start Burp Suite with more memory allocated to the JVM than the default. To accomplish all of …
Burp BS… where the “BS” stands for BeanShell. “What on earth is BeanShell?” you may ask? BeanShell is a very old Java library that was designed to build scripts in Java (full details on www.beanshell.org). It never really caught on for general use because the Java language is designed from the ground up to be …