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sherlock-project/sherlock

Hunt down social media accounts by username across social networks

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Python PEP 517

GitHub topics

#cli #cti #cybersecurity #forensics #hacktoberfest #information-gathering

Updated: 2026-08-02
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2018-12-24
License: MIT
Issues: 322 open

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swisskyrepo/PayloadsAllTheThings

A list of useful payloads and bypass for Web Application Security and Pentest/CTF

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Python

GitHub topics

#bounty #bugbounty #bypass #cheatsheet #enumeration #hacking

Updated: 2026-07-23
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2016-10-18
License: MIT
Issues: Disabled

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Commits: 2,196 commits
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tldr-pages/tldr

Collaborative cheatsheets for console commands 📚.

AI dev

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Markdown npm pip

GitHub topics

#android #bsd #cheatsheet #cheatsheets #cli #command-line

Updated: 2026-08-03
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2013-12-08
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 291 open

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Forks: 5,354
Commits: 23,329 commits
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sharkdp/fd

A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'

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Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#cli #command-line #filesystem #hacktoberfest #regex #rust

Updated: 2026-07-27
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2017-05-09
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 182 open

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Forks: 1,102
Commits: 1,988 commits
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portainer/portainer

Making Docker and Kubernetes management easy.

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TypeScript Cobra gRPC Go React Tailwind CSS Go modules pnpm

GitHub topics

#docker #docker-compose #docker-container #docker-deployment #docker-image #docker-swarm

Updated: 2026-07-28
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2013-06-09
License: Zlib
Issues: 742 open

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Forks: 2,869
Commits: 6,060 commits
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aquasecurity/trivy

Find vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, SBOM in containers, Kubernetes, code repositories, clouds and more

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Go Celery Cobra Django Django REST Framework Bun Bundler Cargo

GitHub topics

#containers #devsecops #docker #go #golang #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-07-25
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2019-03-27
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 234 open

37,091

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Forks: 552
Commits: 4,147 commits
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digitalocean/nginxconfig.io

⚙️ NGINX config generator on steroids 💉

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JavaScript Vue npm

GitHub topics

#cdn #digitalocean #digitalocean-community-tools #drupal #gzip #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2024-12-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-04-27
License: MIT
Issues: 71 open

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Forks: 2,041
Commits: 322 commits
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radareorg/radare2

UNIX-like reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset

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C Meson npm

GitHub topics

#binary-analysis #c #commandline #disassembler #forensics #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-07-27
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2009-02-05
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 824 open

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Forks: 3,282
Commits: 36,523 commits
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osquery/osquery

SQL powered operating system instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics.

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C++ CMake pip

GitHub topics

#hacktoberfest #intrusion-detection #monitoring #security #sql

Updated: 2026-07-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-07-31
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 618 open

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Commits: 6,738 commits
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bee-san/RustScan

🤖 The Modern Port Scanner 🤖

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Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#docker #hacking #hacktoberfest #networking #nmap #pentesting

Updated: 2026-07-16
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2020-07-11
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 60 open

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Forks: 1,360
Commits: 1,007 commits
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projectdiscovery/subfinder

Fast passive subdomain enumeration tool.

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Go gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#bugbounty #hacking #hacktoberfest #osint #reconnaissance #subdomain-enumeration

Updated: 2026-07-22
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2018-03-31
License: MIT
Issues: 16 open

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Forks: 1,589
Commits: 2,216 commits
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Gallopsled/pwntools

CTF framework and exploit development library

Stack

Python pip uv

GitHub topics

#assembly #bsd #capture-the-flag #ctf #ctf-framework #defcon

Updated: 2026-07-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-05-01
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 120 open

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Forks: 1,849
Commits: 4,645 commits
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danluu/post-mortems

A collection of postmortems. Sorry for the delay in merging PRs!

GitHub topics

#debugging #hacktoberfest #post-mortem

Updated: 2026-06-22
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2015-08-03
License: Unknown
Issues: Disabled

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Commits: 389 commits
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oh-my-fish/oh-my-fish

The Fish Shell Framework

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Shell

GitHub topics

#fish #fishshell #fishshell-framework #hacktoberfest #oh-my-fish #oh-my-zsh

Updated: 2026-05-19
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-07-23
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

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Forks: 806
Commits: 1,806 commits
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OWASP/wstg

The Web Security Testing Guide is a comprehensive Open Source guide to testing the security of web applications and web services.

GitHub topics

#application-security #appsec #best-practices #bugbounty #guide #hacking

Updated: 2026-07-20
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-05-14
License: CC-BY-SA-4.0
Issues: 42 open

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Forks: 1,645
Commits: 1,243 commits
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Tikam02/DevOps-Guide

DevOps Guide - Development to Production all configurations with basic notes to debug efficiently.

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HTML Express npm

GitHub topics

#ansible #cheatsheet #ci-cd #containers #devops #devops-cheatsheets

Updated: 2026-05-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-10-16
License: MIT
Issues: 11 open

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Forks: 2,076
Commits: 688 commits
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DefectDojo/django-DefectDojo

Open-Source Unified Vulnerability Management, DevSecOps & ASPM

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HTML Celery Django Django REST Framework Tailwind CSS npm pip Yarn

GitHub topics

#analytics #appsec #automation #devsecops #django #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-07-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-03-13
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 252 open

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Forks: 1,921
Commits: 14,783 commits
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Guake/guake

Drop-down terminal for GNOME

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Python pytest PEP 517 pip Pipenv

GitHub topics

#guake #guake-terminal #hacktoberfest #terminal #terminal-emulator

Updated: 2026-07-04
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2007-08-01
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 455 open

4,662

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Forks: 596
Commits: 2,502 commits
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grapheneX/grapheneX

Automated System Hardening Framework

Stack

Python Flask Poetry

GitHub topics

#hacktoberfest #hardening #hardening-commands #security

Updated: 2025-03-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-03-25
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 6 open

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Forks: 96
Commits: 895 commits
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globocom/secDevLabs

A laboratory for learning secure web and mobile development in a practical manner.

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PHP Android Angular Cobra Echo CocoaPods Dart Pub Go modules

GitHub topics

#development #hacktoberfest #hacktoberfest2022 #labs #owasp-top-10 #security

Updated: 2024-09-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-12-01
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 30 open

978

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Forks: 461
Commits: 710 commits
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juice-shop/multi-juicer

Host and manage multiple Juice Shop instances for security trainings and Capture The Flags

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TypeScript React Tailwind CSS Vite Go modules npm

GitHub topics

#capture-the-flag #ctf-platform #hacking #hacktoberfest #juice-shop #kubernetes

Updated: 2026-07-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-06-10
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 9 open

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Commits: 1,616 commits
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Default branch: master
Last pushed: 2024-11-19
GitHub updated: 2026-08-08
Created: 2018-06-23
First commit: 2018-06-23
Last scanned: 2026-08-08 10:50
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