Burp Suite Free Edition v1.6 released

Summary: PortSwigger released Burp Suite Free Edition v1.6, described as a significant upgrade over v1.5 with a wealth of new features. The Free Edition remains free, while Burp Suite Professional stays at $299, a price unchanged for two-and-a-half years across two major and nearly forty minor updates, with no increase planned during 2014.
What you should know: A free release of a widely used web vulnerability scanner puts capable testing tooling in more hands at no cost, while the vendor's stated $299 Pro price and no-hike pledge for 2014 set the budget expectation for teams standardizing on it.

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Topics: Vulnerabilities & Patching
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