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nixawk/pentest-wiki

PENTEST-WIKI is a free online security knowledge library for pentesters / researchers. If you have a good idea, please share it with others.

Stack

Python

GitHub topics

#hacking #pentest #security

Updated: 2023-09-13
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-11-23
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 21 open

3,747

stars

Forks: 933
Commits: 163 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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blechschmidt/massdns

A high-performance DNS stub resolver for bulk lookups and reconnaissance (subdomain enumeration)

Stack

C CMake pip

GitHub topics

#bulk-dns #dns #dns-bruteforcer #dns-client #dns-lookup #dns-resolution

Updated: 2026-04-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-06-23
History: 3 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 14 open

3,627

stars

Forks: 505
Commits: 316 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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OWASP/ASVS

Application Security Verification Standard

Stack

HTML pip

Updated: 2026-07-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-10-30
History: 3 history points
License: CC-BY-SA-4.0
Issues: 108 open

3,521

stars

Forks: 824
Commits: 3,277 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ankane/pgsync

Sync data from one Postgres database to another

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#postgresql

Updated: 2025-12-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-12-08
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 14 open

3,462

stars

Forks: 218
Commits: 697 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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snori74/linuxupskillchallenge

Learn the skills required to sysadmin a remote Linux server from the commandline.

Archived

Stack

Shell

Updated: 2021-03-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-01-15
History: 40 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 0 open

3,426

stars

Forks: 576
Commits: 691 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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in3rsha/sha256-animation

Animation of the SHA-256 hash function in your terminal.

Stack

Ruby

Updated: 2024-03-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-05-11
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 3 open

3,395

stars

Forks: 168
Commits: 13 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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corkami/collisions

Hash collisions and exploitations

Stack

Python

GitHub topics

#collisions #exploitation #hash #md5 #scripts #sha1

Updated: 2025-02-20
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-01-28
History: 3 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 7 open

3,386

stars

Forks: 210
Commits: 153 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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traviscross/mtr

Official repository for mtr, a network diagnostic tool

Stack

Updated: 2026-06-16
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2013-02-01
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 136 open

3,316

stars

Forks: 373
Commits: 982 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

dbcli/litecli

CLI for SQLite Databases with auto-completion and syntax highlighting

AI dev

Stack

Python pytest PEP 517

GitHub topics

#linux #prompt-toolkit #python #sqlite #syntax-highlighting

Updated: 2026-06-18
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2018-05-13
History: 9 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 43 open

3,285

stars

Forks: 94
Commits: 577 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

arthepsy/ssh-audit

SSH server auditing (banner, key exchange, encryption, mac, compression, compatibility, security, etc)

Stack

Python

Updated: 2024-06-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-12-23
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 31 open

2,995

stars

Forks: 264
Commits: 165 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Ekultek/WhatWaf

Detect and bypass web application firewalls and protection systems

Stack

Python pip

GitHub topics

#bypass #detection #fingerprinting #firewall #waf #web-application

Updated: 2024-08-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-12-15
History: 3 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 478 open

2,919

stars

Forks: 469
Commits: 398 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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dloss/python-pentest-tools

Python tools for penetration testers

Updated: 2026-07-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-11-16
History: 40 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

2,878

stars

Forks: 785
Commits: 52 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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orangetw/My-CTF-Web-Challenges

Collection of CTF Web challenges I made

Stack

PHP pip

Updated: 2025-08-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-08-01
History: 3 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 3 open

2,854

stars

Forks: 481
Commits: 72 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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bugcrowd/bugcrowd_university

Open source education content for the researcher community

Updated: 2026-06-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-07-30
History: 3 history points
License: CC-BY-4.0
Issues: 19 open

2,798

stars

Forks: 564
Commits: 100 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

rewardone/OSCPRepo

A list of commands, scripts, resources, and more that I have gathered and attempted to consolidate for use as OSCP (and more) study material. Commands in 'Usefulcommands' Keepnote. Bookmarks and reading material in 'BookmarkList' CherryTree. Reconscan Py2 and Py3. Custom ISO building.

Stack

GitHub topics

#oscp #penetration-testing #pentest #reconscan

Updated: 2020-06-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-11-12
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

2,746

stars

Forks: 756
Commits: 387 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

laixintao/iredis

Interactive Redis: A Terminal Client for Redis with AutoCompletion and Syntax Highlighting.

Stack

Python pytest Poetry

GitHub topics

#command-line-tool #redis #redis-cli #redis-client

Updated: 2026-07-27
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2019-01-18
History: 10 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 50 open

2,739

stars

Forks: 117
Commits: 1,793 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mehrdadrad/mylg

Network Diagnostic Tool

Stack

Go Angular Go modules npm

GitHub topics

#bgp #golang #looking-glass #network #ping #snmp

Updated: 2020-02-26
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-06-21
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 13 open

2,717

stars

Forks: 237
Commits: 659 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

freach/kubernetes-security-best-practice

Kubernetes Security - Best Practice Guide

GitHub topics

#best-practice #best-practices #guide #kubernetes #security

Updated: 2019-09-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-04-05
History: 3 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 12 open

2,710

stars

Forks: 249
Commits: 40 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

onethawt/reverseengineering-reading-list

A list of Reverse Engineering articles, books, and papers

Updated: 2023-05-02
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2015-09-16
History: 4 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 2 open

2,701

stars

Forks: 350
Commits: 53 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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strace/strace

strace is a diagnostic, debugging and instructional userspace utility for Linux

AI dev

Stack

Updated: 2026-07-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 1999-02-19
History: 3 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 109 open

2,665

stars

Forks: 495
Commits: 11,109 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

Kayzaks/HackingNeuralNetworks

A small course on exploiting and defending neural networks

Stack

Python

Updated: 2020-02-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-10-15
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 3 open

2,635

stars

Forks: 304
Commits: 20 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

rbsec/sslscan

sslscan tests SSL/TLS enabled services to discover supported cipher suites

Stack

Updated: 2026-05-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-08-11
History: 3 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 63 open

2,611

stars

Forks: 412
Commits: 771 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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TH3xACE/SUDO_KILLER

A tool designed to exploit a privilege escalation vulnerability in the sudo program on Unix-like systems. It takes advantage of a specific misconfiguration or flaw in sudo to gain elevated privileges on the system, essentially allowing a regular user to execute commands as the root user.

Stack

Shell

GitHub topics

#abuse-sudo #ctf #cve #exploits #linux-exploits #misconfiguration

Updated: 2026-03-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-10-17
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

2,474

stars

Forks: 261
Commits: 98 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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archerysec/archerysec

ASOC, ASPM, DevSecOps, Vulnerability Management Using ArcherySec.

Stack

JavaScript Django Django REST Framework Poetry

GitHub topics

#asoc #aspm #devops #devops-tools #devsecops #opensource

Updated: 2025-06-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-12-04
History: 3 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 40 open

2,469

stars

Forks: 525
Commits: 1,455 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

square/certstrap

Tools to bootstrap CAs, certificate requests, and signed certificates.

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#bootstrap #certificate #certificate-authority #crypto #csr #golang

Updated: 2026-02-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-03-12
History: 3 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 32 open

2,450

stars

Forks: 211
Commits: 192 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

usnistgov/macos_security

macOS Security Compliance Project

Stack

YAML pytest Bundler pip uv

GitHub topics

#apple #bash #compliance #macos #mdm #mscp

Updated: 2026-07-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-06-05
History: 3 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 21 open

2,424

stars

Forks: 299
Commits: 2,366 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

htrgouvea/nipe

An engine to make Tor network your default gateway

Stack

Perl

GitHub topics

#anonymity #anonymize #engine #iptables #network #nipe

Updated: 2026-06-27
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2015-09-07
History: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 15 open

2,365

stars

Forks: 338
Commits: 502 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

bagder/http2-explained

A detailed document explaining and documenting HTTP/2, the successor to the widely popular HTTP/1.1 protocol

Stack

CSS

GitHub topics

#book #documentation #http2 #protocol

Updated: 2024-04-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-04-25
History: 3 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 25 open

2,313

stars

Forks: 274
Commits: 494 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

bartblaze/PHP-backdoors

A collection of PHP backdoors. For educational or testing purposes only.

Stack

PHP Composer

GitHub topics

#php #php-backdoor #webshell

Updated: 2024-03-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-05-06
History: 3 history points
License: CC0-1.0
Issues: 1 open

2,270

stars

Forks: 465
Commits: 57 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

bagder/http3-explained

A document describing the HTTP/3 and QUIC protocols

GitHub topics

#documentation #http #http3 #quic #transfer-protocol

Updated: 2024-08-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-02-06
History: 3 history points
License: CC-BY-4.0
Issues: 12 open

2,223

stars

Forks: 195
Commits: 441 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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