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infobyte/faraday

Open Source Vulnerability Management Platform

Stack

Python Celery Flask pytest pip uv

GitHub topics

#appsec #burpsuite #collaboration #continuous-scanning #cve #cybersecurity

Updated: 2026-08-20
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-11-06
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 26 open

6,693

stars

Forks: 1,065
Commits: 14,034 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

j3ssie/osmedeus

A Modern Orchestration Engine for Security

AI dev

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go Next.js React Bun Go modules npm

GitHub topics

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

Updated: 2026-08-08
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2026-01-18
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 7 open

6,541

stars

Forks: 1,029
Commits: 133 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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EdOverflow/bugbounty-cheatsheet

A list of interesting payloads, tips and tricks for bug bounty hunters.

GitHub topics

#bugbounty #infosec #payloads #security

Updated: 2023-09-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-07-13
History: 4 history points
License: CC-BY-SA-4.0
Issues: 12 open

6,536

stars

Forks: 1,621
Commits: 230 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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cowrie/cowrie

Cowrie SSH/Telnet Honeypot https://docs.cowrie.org/

Stack

Python PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#attacker #cowrie #cowrie-ssh #deception #decoy #honeypot

Updated: 2026-08-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-11-10
History: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 113 open

6,510

stars

Forks: 1,058
Commits: 4,252 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

lldap/lldap

Light LDAP implementation

AI dev

Stack

Rust Actix Web Cargo

GitHub topics

#authentication #ldap #opaque #rust #security #wasm

Updated: 2026-08-28
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2021-03-02
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 128 open

6,497

stars

Forks: 354
Commits: 1,151 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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cleverhans-lab/cleverhans

An adversarial example library for constructing attacks, building defenses, and benchmarking both

Stack

Jupyter Notebook pytest pip

GitHub topics

#benchmarking #machine-learning #security

Updated: 2024-04-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-09-15
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 46 open

6,449

stars

Forks: 1,395
Commits: 3,203 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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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: 4 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 46 open

6,444

stars

Forks: 1,215
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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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: 2026-08-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-10-12
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 621 open

6,309

stars

Forks: 1,438
Commits: 12,664 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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microsoft/agent-governance-toolkit

AI Agent Governance Toolkit — Policy enforcement, zero-trust identity, execution sandboxing, and reliability engineering for autonomous AI agents. Covers 10/10 OWASP Agentic Top 10.

AI dev

Stack

Python Django FastAPI PydanticAI pytest Cargo .NET SDK Go modules

GitHub topics

#agent-framework #ai-agents #ai-safety #compliance #governance #microsoft

Updated: 2026-09-10
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2026-03-02
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 267 open

6,250

stars

Forks: 1,113
Commits: 2,500 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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Tencent/AI-Infra-Guard

A full-stack AI Red Teaming platform securing AI ecosystems via Agent Scan, Skills Scan, MCP scan, AI Infra scan and LLM jailbreak evaluation.

AI dev

Stack

Python Cobra FastAPI Gin pytest Go modules npm PEP 517

GitHub topics

#agent #agent-security #agentic-ai #ai-infra #ai-red-teaming #ai-safety

Updated: 2026-09-10
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2025-01-02
History: 9 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 37 open

6,214

stars

Forks: 580
Commits: 1,863 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

azukaar/Cosmos-Server

☁️ The Most Secure and Easy Selfhosted Home Server. Take control of your data and privacy without sacrificing security and stability (Authentication, anti-DDOS, anti-bot)

Stack

Go Cobra Express gRPC Go React Go modules npm

GitHub topics

#authentication #cloud #cosmos #reverse-proxy #security #self-hosted

Updated: 2026-09-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-02-11
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 204 open

6,157

stars

Forks: 249
Commits: 999 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

passbolt/passbolt_api

Passbolt Community Edition (CE) API. The JSON API for the open source password manager for teams!

AI dev

Stack

PHP React Symfony Composer npm

GitHub topics

#cakephp #cakephp5 #credentials #passbolt #password #password-manager

Updated: 2026-08-21
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2005-05-15
History: 8 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 27 open

6,089

stars

Forks: 397
Commits: 33,905 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

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: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: Disabled

5,959

stars

Forks: 903
Commits: 120 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

OlivierLaflamme/Cheatsheet-God

Penetration Testing Reference Bank - OSCP / PTP & PTX Cheatsheet

GitHub topics

#awesome #cheatsheet #cheatsheet-god #hacking #hacking-code #hacking-tool

Updated: 2024-12-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-08-02
History: 4 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 7 open

5,624

stars

Forks: 1,263
Commits: 104 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

NullArray/AutoSploit

Automated Mass Exploiter

Stack

Python pip

GitHub topics

#automation #exploit #exploitation #metasploit #offsec #python

Updated: 2023-05-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-01-30
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 132 open

5,254

stars

Forks: 1,181
Commits: 281 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

libreddit/libreddit

Private front-end for Reddit

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#docker #front-end #privacy #reddit #rust #security

Updated: 2025-02-15
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2020-10-25
History: 7 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 197 open

5,202

stars

Forks: 254
Commits: 958 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

google/google-ctf

Google CTF

Stack

Python Android Django Express Flask Cargo CMake Composer

GitHub topics

#ctf #ctf-challenges #google #security

Updated: 2026-02-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-04-27
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 1 open

5,007

stars

Forks: 594
Commits: 410 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Hack-with-Github/Free-Security-eBooks

Free Security and Hacking eBooks

Archived

GitHub topics

#cloud-security #cyber-security #ebooks #forensics #hackers-handbook #hacking

Updated: 2019-07-10
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-04-21
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 3 open

4,974

stars

Forks: 1,083
Commits: 48 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

DefectDojo/django-DefectDojo

Open-Source Unified Vulnerability Management, DevSecOps & ASPM

AI dev

Stack

HTML Celery Django Django REST Framework Tailwind CSS npm pip Yarn

GitHub topics

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

Updated: 2026-08-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-03-13
History: 4 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 216 open

4,910

stars

Forks: 1,940
Commits: 15,171 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

openziti/zrok

Secure internet sharing made simple.

AI dev

Stack

Go Cobra Express Flask gRPC Go Go modules npm PEP 517

GitHub topics

#file-sharing #golang #network #peer-to-peer #reverse-proxy #security

Updated: 2026-06-22
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2022-07-18
History: 48 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 125 open

4,678

stars

Forks: 222
Commits: 4,281 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +9 +0.2%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

aquasecurity/tracee

Linux Runtime Security and Forensics using eBPF

AI dev

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#bpf #docker #ebpf #golang #kubernetes #linux

Updated: 2026-09-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-09-18
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 123 open

4,599

stars

Forks: 508
Commits: 4,336 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

cerbos/cerbos

Cerbos is the open core, language-agnostic, scalable authorization solution that makes user permissions and authorization simple to implement and manage by writing context-aware access control policies for your application resources.

Stack

Go Cobra Express gRPC Go Go modules npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#access-control #authorization #go #golang #kubernetes #policy

Updated: 2026-08-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-01-31
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 58 open

4,548

stars

Forks: 205
Commits: 2,671 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

intuitem/ciso-assistant-community

CISO Assistant is a one-stop-shop GRC platform for Risk Management, AppSec, Compliance & Audit, TPRM, BIA, Privacy, and Reporting. It supports 200+ global frameworks with automatic control mapping, including ISO 27001, NIST CSF, SOC 2, CIS, PCI DSS, NIS2, DORA, GDPR, HIPAA, CMMC, and more.

AI dev

Stack

Python Django Django REST Framework pytest Starlette npm PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#audit #automation #bsi #cis #compliance #cybersecurity

Updated: 2026-09-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-09-20
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 101 open

4,412

stars

Forks: 827
Commits: 7,765 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

buttercup/buttercup-desktop

:key: Cross-Platform Passwords & Secrets Vault

Archived

Stack

TypeScript Electron Express React npm

GitHub topics

#buttercup #electron #encryption #login #password-manager #password-vault

Updated: 2025-03-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-09-12
History: 10 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 156 open

4,394

stars

Forks: 341
Commits: 2,568 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Netflix/security_monkey

Security Monkey monitors AWS, GCP, OpenStack, and GitHub orgs for assets and their changes over time.

Archived

Stack

Python Celery Flask pytest Dart Pub pip

GitHub topics

#aws #aws-ec2 #aws-iam #aws-policy-tracking #aws-s3 #aws-security

Updated: 2021-02-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-06-27
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 84 open

4,371

stars

Forks: 780
Commits: 1,660 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

cilium/hubble

Hubble - Network, Service & Security Observability for Kubernetes using eBPF

AI dev

Stack

Makefile Cobra gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#cilium #ebpf #kubernetes #metrics #networking #observability

Updated: 2026-09-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-11-19
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 44 open

4,327

stars

Forks: 300
Commits: 1,388 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

PaulSec/awesome-sec-talks

A collected list of awesome security talks

GitHub topics

#conferences #hacking #infosec #security

Updated: 2026-02-17
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2016-01-19
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 0 open

4,231

stars

Forks: 490
Commits: 294 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

guelfoweb/knockpy

Knock Subdomain Scan

Stack

Python pip

GitHub topics

#bugbounty #knockpy #penetration-testing #security #subdomain #subdomain-enumeration

Updated: 2026-02-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-02-11
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 71 open

4,181

stars

Forks: 873
Commits: 116 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

nolabs-ai/nono

secure multiplexed execution paths for agents - zero trust, zero setup, zero latency.

AI dev

Stack

Rust Cargo npm

GitHub topics

#agent-sandbox #agent-security #ai-agent-sandbox #ai-agent-security #ai-agents #ai-security

Updated: 2026-09-15
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2026-02-09
History: 58 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 202 open

4,103

stars

Forks: 271
Commits: 1,746 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +77 +1.9%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +35 +2.0%

Website GitHub

HyperDbg/HyperDbg

State-of-the-art native debugging tools

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#anti-debug #anti-debugging #anti-virtualization #binary-analysis #debug #debugger

Updated: 2026-08-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-01-01
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 31 open

4,025

stars

Forks: 502
Commits: 3,346 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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