TIL that PortSwigger is a joke (infosec.pub)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Deebster@infosec.pub to c/cybersecurity@infosec.pub

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The name, that is.

I was curious if Burp Suite's Dafydd Stuttard was Welsh, which led me to his AMA video.

PortSwigger was his handle when he was starting out, and was a pun about the fortified wine from Portugal and port scanners.

That vid also answers who is Peter Wiener.

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[-] vollkorntomate@infosec.pub 4 points 3 months ago

Even the name "Burp" Suite itself is not what you’d get from a serious corporation

[-] cron@feddit.org 3 points 3 months ago

I was recently thinking about who came up with the name. I wouldn't have guessed the connection to port wine, but it makes sense - you can't drink network ports.

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