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The Book Of Secret Knowledge
A collection of inspiring lists, manuals, cheatsheets, blogs, hacks, one-liners, cli/web tools and more.
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swisskyrepo/PayloadsAllTheThings
A list of useful payloads and bypass for Web Application Security and Pentest/CTF
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- 2026-08-27
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- 2016-10-18
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bee-san/RustScan
🤖 The Modern Port Scanner 🤖
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- 2020-07-11
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projectdiscovery/subfinder
Fast passive subdomain enumeration tool.
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- 2026-10-08
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- 2018-03-31
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- MIT
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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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1N3/Sn1per
Automated penetration testing & attack surface management platform. Recon, scan, exploit, report — 600+ exploits, 90+ integrations, 10K+ detections.
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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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- 2018-04-26
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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.
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- 2017-05-14
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j3ssie/osmedeus
A Modern Orchestration Engine for Security
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yeahhub/Hacking-Security-Ebooks
Top 100 Hacking & Security E-Books (Free Download)
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- 2018-11-25
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- Unknown
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OlivierLaflamme/Cheatsheet-God
Penetration Testing Reference Bank - OSCP / PTP & PTX Cheatsheet
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- 2018-08-02
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Hack-with-Github/Free-Security-eBooks
Free Security and Hacking eBooks
Archived
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- 2019-07-10
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- 2016-04-21
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PaulSec/awesome-sec-talks
A collected list of awesome security talks
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- 2016-01-19
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evyatarmeged/Raccoon
A high performance offensive security tool for reconnaissance and vulnerability scanning
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- 2018-05-15
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- MIT
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foospidy/payloads
Git All the Payloads! A collection of web attack payloads.
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- 2023-05-15
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- 2016-02-21
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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.
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- 2014-11-23
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- MIT
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yassineaboukir/sublert
Sublert is a security and reconnaissance tool which leverages certificate transparency to automatically monitor new subdomains deployed by specific organizations and issued TLS/SSL certificate.
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- 2019-03-08
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bl4de/security-tools
My collection of various security tools created mostly in Python and Bash. For CTFs and Bug Bounty.
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- 2014-08-19
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bl4de/ctf
My CTF journey since 2015. Stats, writeups, code snippets, notes, challenges.
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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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- 2019-06-10
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bl4de/research
Bug Bounty writeups, Vulnerability Research, Tutorials, Tips&Tricks
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- 2015-12-12
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