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A little tool to play with Windows security
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n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager
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The premier source of truth powering network automation. Open source under Apache 2. Try NetBox Cloud free: https://netboxlabs.com/products/free-netbox-cloud/
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vulhub/vulhub
Pre-Built Vulnerable Environments Based on Docker-Compose
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HTTP load generator, ApacheBench (ab) replacement
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peass-ng/PEASS-ng
PEASS - Privilege Escalation Awesome Scripts SUITE (with colors)
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🤖 The Modern Port Scanner 🤖
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Automated Nginx Reverse Proxy for Docker
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A fully-modern text-based browser, rendering to TTY and browsers
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google/gvisor
Application Kernel for Containers
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InterviewMap/CS-Interview-Knowledge-Map
Build the best interview map. The current content includes JS, network, browser related, performance optimization, security, framework, Git, data structure, algorithm, etc.
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bcicen/ctop
Top-like interface for container metrics
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🎮 The only Front-End Performance Checklist that runs faster than the others
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A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console
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rupa/z
z - jump around
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- WTFPL
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What happens behind the scenes when we type www.google.com in a browser?
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fortra/impacket
Impacket is a collection of Python classes for working with network protocols.
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Bash-it/bash-it
A community Bash framework.
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s0md3v/XSStrike
Most advanced XSS scanner.
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owasp-amass/amass
In-depth attack surface mapping and asset discovery
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tomnomnom/gron
Make JSON greppable!
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rstacruz/cheatsheets
Cheatsheets for web development - devhints.io
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trimstray/nginx-admins-handbook
How to improve NGINX performance, security, and other important things.
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jessfraz/dockerfiles
Various Dockerfiles I use on the desktop and on servers.
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projectdiscovery/subfinder
Fast passive subdomain enumeration tool.
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- 2018-03-31
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- MIT
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blaCCkHatHacEEkr/PENTESTING-BIBLE
articles
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- 2019-06-28
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OJ/gobuster
Directory/File, DNS and VHost busting tool written in Go
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- 2014-11-14
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Gallopsled/pwntools
CTF framework and exploit development library
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DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-proxy
dnscrypt-proxy 2 - A flexible DNS proxy, with support for encrypted DNS protocols.
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alibaba/tengine
A distribution of Nginx with some advanced features
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dbcli/pgcli
Postgres CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting
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threat9/routersploit
Exploitation Framework for Embedded Devices
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- 2016-03-30
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- NOASSERTION
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- 839 commits
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OWASP/mastg
The OWASP Mobile Application Security Testing Guide (MASTG) is a comprehensive manual for mobile app security testing and reverse engineering. It describes technical processes for verifying the OWASP Mobile Security Weakness Enumeration (MASWE) weaknesses, which are in alignment with the OWASP MASVS.
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- CC-BY-SA-4.0
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s0md3v/Photon
Incredibly fast crawler designed for OSINT.
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- 2026-02-10
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- 2018-03-30
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- GPL-3.0
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Idnan/bash-guide
A guide to learn bash
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- 2017-04-01
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- MIT
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- 27 open
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- 105 commits
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hadolint/hadolint
Dockerfile linter, validate inline bash, written in Haskell
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- 2015-11-15
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future-architect/vuls
Agent-less vulnerability scanner for Linux, FreeBSD, Container, WordPress, Programming language libraries, Network devices
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- 2016-03-27
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danluu/post-mortems
A collection of postmortems. Sorry for the delay in merging PRs!
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- 2015-08-03
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- Unknown
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dbcli/mycli
A Terminal Client for MySQL with AutoCompletion and Syntax Highlighting.
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- 2015-04-05
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docker-archive-public/docker.labs
This is a collection of tutorials for learning how to use Docker with various tools. Contributions welcome.
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- 2016-04-21
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- Apache-2.0
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- 5,187
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- 718 commits
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oh-my-fish/oh-my-fish
The Fish Shell Framework
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- 2026-05-19
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- 2012-07-23
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- MIT
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- 801
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aristocratos/bashtop
Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor
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- 2023-08-21
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- 2020-03-28
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- Apache-2.0
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aboul3la/Sublist3r
Fast subdomains enumeration tool for penetration testers
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- 2024-08-02
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- 2015-12-15
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- GPL-2.0
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- 138 commits
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beefproject/beef
The Browser Exploitation Framework Project
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- 2026-06-23
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- 2010-01-05
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- Unknown
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asciimoo/wuzz
Interactive cli tool for HTTP inspection
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- 2026-06-18
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- AGPL-3.0
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bunkerity/bunkerweb
🛡️ Open-source and cloud-native Web Application Firewall (WAF)
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- 2026-06-24
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- 2019-08-20
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- 9,964 commits
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pwndbg/pwndbg
Exploit Development and Reverse Engineering with GDB & LLDB Made Easy
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- 2026-06-23
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- 1 list mention
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- 2015-02-10
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- MIT
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- 3,055 commits
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trimstray/the-practical-linux-hardening-guide
This guide details creating a secure Linux production system. OpenSCAP (C2S/CIS, STIG).
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- 2024-11-19
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- 2018-10-06
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- 173 commits
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brendangregg/perf-tools
Performance analysis tools based on Linux perf_events (aka perf) and ftrace
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- 2014-07-10
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infosecn1nja/Red-Teaming-Toolkit
This repository contains cutting-edge open-source security tools (OST) for a red teamer and threat hunter.
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