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stamparm/maltrail

Malicious traffic detection system

Stack

Python pip

GitHub topics

#attack-detection #intrusion-detection #malware #network-monitoring #python #security

Updated: 2026-07-28
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2026-01-02
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 100 open

8,562

stars

Forks: 1,258
Commits: 8,447 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
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draios/sysdig

Linux system exploration and troubleshooting tool with first class support for containers

Stack

C++ CMake

Updated: 2026-04-13
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2014-01-15
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 116 open

8,273

stars

Forks: 755
Commits: 4,927 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

rebootuser/LinEnum

Scripted Local Linux Enumeration & Privilege Escalation Checks

Stack

Shell

Updated: 2023-09-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-08-20
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 25 open

7,987

stars

Forks: 2,011
Commits: 75 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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offensive-security/exploitdb

The legacy Exploit Database repository - New repo located at https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb

Archived

Updated: 2022-11-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-12-03
History: 3 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 1 open

7,863

stars

Forks: 1,874
Commits: 2,584 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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dylanaraps/pure-sh-bible

📖 A collection of pure POSIX sh alternatives to external processes.

Archived

Stack

Shell

GitHub topics

#bible #book #guide #handbook #how-to #learning

Updated: 2023-12-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-09-19
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 30 open

7,729

stars

Forks: 366
Commits: 88 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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codesenberg/bombardier

Fast cross-platform HTTP benchmarking tool written in Go

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#benchmarking #bombardier #cli #fast #go #golang

Updated: 2026-03-31
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-05-29
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 27 open

6,811

stars

Forks: 329
Commits: 118 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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RomuloOliveira/commit-messages-guide

A guide to understand the importance of commit messages and how to write them well

Updated: 2025-06-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-02-25
History: 3 history points
License: CC-BY-4.0
Issues: 13 open

6,770

stars

Forks: 341
Commits: 127 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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AFLplusplus/AFLplusplus

The fuzzer afl++ is afl with community patches, qemu 5.1 upgrade, collision-free coverage, enhanced laf-intel & redqueen, AFLfast++ power schedules, MOpt mutators, unicorn_mode, and a lot more!

Stack

C Cargo npm

GitHub topics

#afl #afl-compiler #afl-fuzz #afl-fuzzer #afl-gcc #fuzz-testing

Updated: 2026-07-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-05-28
History: 3 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 26 open

6,675

stars

Forks: 1,313
Commits: 8,673 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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dhamaniasad/HeadlessBrowsers

A list of (almost) all headless web browsers in existence

GitHub topics

#automation #browser #headless-browsers #testing

Updated: 2025-10-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-09-12
History: 3 history points
License: CC0-1.0
Issues: 18 open

6,662

stars

Forks: 452
Commits: 148 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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facebookarchive/fbctf

Platform to host Capture the Flag competitions

Archived

Stack

Hack Symfony Composer npm

GitHub topics

#ctf #ctf-framework

Updated: 2023-12-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-01-30
History: 3 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 130 open

6,550

stars

Forks: 1,303
Commits: 632 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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lebinh/ngxtop

Real-time metrics for nginx server

Stack

Python pip

GitHub topics

#cli #monitoring #nginx

Updated: 2026-03-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-03-21
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 62 open

6,524

stars

Forks: 474
Commits: 49 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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j3ssie/osmedeus

A Modern Orchestration Engine for Security

AI dev

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#agentic-ai #attack-surface-management #bugbounty #go #hacking #hacking-tool

Updated: 2026-07-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2026-01-18
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 8 open

6,493

stars

Forks: 1,023
Commits: 124 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

yeahhub/Hacking-Security-Ebooks

Top 100 Hacking & Security E-Books (Free Download)

GitHub topics

#books #ebooks #hacking #hacking-security-ebooks #kali-linux #penetration-testing

Updated: 2024-07-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-11-25
History: 3 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 46 open

6,408

stars

Forks: 1,216
Commits: 12 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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zmap/zmap

ZMap is a fast single packet network scanner designed for Internet-wide network surveys.

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#internet-measurement #internet-scanning #port-scanner #research

Updated: 2026-07-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-08-16
History: 3 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 9 open

6,332

stars

Forks: 985
Commits: 1,416 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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hmaverickadams/Beginner-Network-Pentesting

Notes for Beginner Network Pentesting Course

Updated: 2022-09-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-07-09
History: 3 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 14 open

6,315

stars

Forks: 1,689
Commits: 29 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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streaak/keyhacks

Keyhacks is a repository which shows quick ways in which API keys leaked by a bug bounty program can be checked to see if they're valid.

Updated: 2024-08-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-03-12
History: 3 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 46 open

6,296

stars

Forks: 1,224
Commits: 236 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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google/syzkaller

syzkaller is an unsupervised coverage-guided kernel fuzzer

AI dev

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#fuzz-testing #fuzzer #fuzzing #kernel #linux #security

Updated: 2026-07-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-10-12
History: 3 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 604 open

6,286

stars

Forks: 1,432
Commits: 12,519 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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hjacobs/kubernetes-failure-stories

Compilation of public failure/horror stories related to Kubernetes

Archived

Stack

HTML

GitHub topics

#failures #incidents #kubernetes #post-mortem #postmortem #production-engineering

Updated: 2020-08-23
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2019-01-19
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 0 open

6,227

stars

Forks: 328
Commits: 92 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

reorx/httpstat

curl statistics made simple

AI dev

Stack

Python pytest uv

GitHub topics

#cli #curl #http #python #visualization

Updated: 2026-04-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-08-30
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 9 open

6,213

stars

Forks: 384
Commits: 106 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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longld/peda

PEDA - Python Exploit Development Assistance for GDB

Stack

Python

Updated: 2024-07-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-08-03
History: 3 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 76 open

6,141

stars

Forks: 828
Commits: 119 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

TCM-Course-Resources/Practical-Ethical-Hacking-Resources

Compilation of Resources from TCM's Practical Ethical Hacking Udemy Course

Stack

Python

Updated: 2023-02-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-03-10
History: 3 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: Disabled

6,099

stars

Forks: 1,460
Commits: 74 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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denysdovhan/bash-handbook

:book: For those who wanna learn Bash

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#bash #book #guide #handbook #how-to #learning

Updated: 2024-02-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-12-30
History: 3 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 30 open

6,072

stars

Forks: 757
Commits: 256 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

devanshbatham/Awesome-Bugbounty-Writeups

A curated list of bugbounty writeups (Bug type wise) , inspired from https://github.com/ngalongc/bug-bounty-reference

Stack

Python

GitHub topics

#bugbounty #bugbounty-blogs #bugbounty-facebook #bugbounty-writeups #bugbounty-yahoo #bugbountytips

Updated: 2023-08-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-05-04
History: 3 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 12 open

6,064

stars

Forks: 1,213
Commits: 59 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

AutoRecon/AutoRecon

AutoRecon is a multi-threaded network reconnaissance tool which performs automated enumeration of services.

Stack

Python pip Poetry

Updated: 2026-01-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-03-01
History: 3 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 41 open

6,061

stars

Forks: 976
Commits: 297 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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lsyncd/lsyncd

Lsyncd (Live Syncing Daemon) synchronizes local directories with remote targets

Stack

Lua CMake

Updated: 2024-11-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-08-06
History: 3 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 180 open

6,060

stars

Forks: 476
Commits: 926 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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michenriksen/aquatone

A Tool for Domain Flyovers

Archived

Stack

GitHub topics

#chrome-headless #chromium #golang #osint #reconnaissance #security

Updated: 2022-05-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-06-17
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: Disabled

5,958

stars

Forks: 905
Commits: 120 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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hishamhm/htop

htop is an interactive text-mode process viewer for Unix systems. It aims to be a better 'top'.

Archived

Stack

GitHub topics

#c #console #console-application #freebsd #htop #linux

Updated: 2020-11-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2006-03-04
History: 3 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 315 open

5,900

stars

Forks: 571
Commits: 1,079 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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microsoft/ethr

Ethr is a Comprehensive Network Measurement Tool for TCP, UDP & ICMP.

Stack

Go Go modules

Updated: 2026-07-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-11-25
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 51 open

5,863

stars

Forks: 405
Commits: 111 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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lanmaster53/recon-ng

Open Source Intelligence gathering tool aimed at reducing the time spent harvesting information from open sources.

Stack

Python

Updated: 2024-11-01
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2012-10-24
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 38 open

5,814

stars

Forks: 900
Commits: 1,028 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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leandromoreira/linux-network-performance-parameters

Learn where some of the network sysctl variables fit into the Linux/Kernel network flow. Translations: 🇷🇺

GitHub topics

#kernel #linux #network #performance #sysctl #tcp

Updated: 2026-06-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-05-22
History: 3 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 3 open

5,807

stars

Forks: 531
Commits: 68 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
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