TIL that PortSwigger is a joke
from Deebster@infosec.pub to cybersecurity@infosec.pub on 24 Oct 05:30
https://infosec.pub/post/36616113

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.

#cybersecurity

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vollkorntomate@infosec.pub on 24 Oct 07:40 next collapse

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

cron@feddit.org on 24 Oct 08:30 collapse

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.