GIAC paper on Burp Intruder
Summary: Karl Dawson wrote a paper on using Burp Intruder to discover login credentials, including tricks for revealing other useful information and anomalies alongside guessing valid passwords. Dafydd Stuttard announced the paper on the PortSwigger blog on Monday, 2 November 2009.
Key Takeaway: The technique described is credential guessing against login pages, so the exposure sits with any authentication endpoint that permits repeated attempts.
Read the original at PortSwigger Research ↗
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