Burp Suite (Burp for short) is a well-known and popular integrated tools platform that is used to perform security penetration tests for web applications (actually it's more commonly used for hacking activities such as web attacks), written in Java, developed by PortSwigger from United Kingdom.

More and more critical applications have been migrated to websites now. Meanwhile, the security of these apps have become a major challenge to all kinds of institutions. Know yourself as well as the enemy, so that you can fight a hundred battles with no danger of defeat. Similarly, only by understanding the exploitable vulnerabilities exist in web applications and the attack methods adopted by web attackers, we can more effectively ensure the safety of our web apps.

First of all, about the author of this book "Johnny Long", he has begun to research using Google to test the potential safety hazards of websites and computers as early as in 1995. What he does has developed and formed today's Google Hacking Techniques - the Google Hacking Database (GHDB) set up by him has been hosted by Exploits-DB now.