Professional / Community 2020.8.1

Summary: PortSwigger announced on 20 August 2020 that Burp Scanner now performs all navigation during crawl and audit using an embedded Chromium browser by default, after several months of live testing. The change is intended to handle JavaScript and other navigational structures that modern browsers can, and the scanner falls back to the previous crawling engine if the machine does not appear to meet the recommended 2 CPU cores and 8 GB RAM.
What you should know: Browser-powered scanning stays off by default in Burp Suite Enterprise Edition, so teams running the enterprise product are not getting the improved crawl and audit coverage unless they change the setting themselves.

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Topics: Vulnerabilities & Patching
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