Re:Show HN: Mitmproxy 1.0 released, now with a web interface
by tptacek on Monday December 26, 2016 @05:04PM
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This is great.
For what it's worth, the approach you take with web applications is pretty much the same as the one used by all the high-end software security firms (certainly Matasano, iSEC, Leviathan, and Bishop Fox). Out on a limb, I'd say every consultant at every one of those firms gets a copy of Burp.
The walk/filter/replay workflow you're talking about is one Burp is built around --- that's the Proxy History, "Send To Repeater", and "Repeater" features.
Regarding software teams at startups: I totally buy that mitmproxy is more scriptable than Burp (it doesn't hurt that most of the people we're working with in 2017 are Python shops). But I used Intruder a lot when testing, and I'm not sure I'd want to lose that; I think there's a lot of value in the sort of but not quite random fuzzing Burp is good at doing, for serendipity finds.
For what it's worth, the approach you take with web applications is pretty much the same as the one used by all the high-end software security firms (certainly Matasano, iSEC, Leviathan, and Bishop Fox). Out on a limb, I'd say every consultant at every one of those firms gets a copy of Burp.
The walk/filter/replay workflow you're talking about is one Burp is built around --- that's the Proxy History, "Send To Repeater", and "Repeater" features.
Regarding software teams at startups: I totally buy that mitmproxy is more scriptable than Burp (it doesn't hurt that most of the people we're working with in 2017 are Python shops). But I used Intruder a lot when testing, and I'm not sure I'd want to lose that; I think there's a lot of value in the sort of but not quite random fuzzing Burp is good at doing, for serendipity finds.