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google/stenographer

Stenographer is a packet capture solution which aims to quickly spool all packets to disk, then provide simple, fast access to subsets of those packets. Discussion/announcements at stenographer@googlegroups.com

Archived AI dev
Stack
Go
Updated
2021-07-26
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2014-10-13
History
6 history points
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
50 open
Forks
231
Commits
486 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
gamelinux/passivedns

A network sniffer that logs all DNS server replies for use in a passive DNS setup

Stack
C
Updated
2024-05-28
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2011-04-29
History
5 history points
License
Unknown
Issues
38 open
Forks
379
Commits
297 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
openappsec/openappsec

open-appsec is a machine learning security engine that preemptively and automatically prevents threats against Web Application & APIs. This repo include the main code and logic.

Updated
2026-09-06
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2022-10-26
History
5 history points
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
38 open
Forks
137
Commits
529 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
desaster/kippo

Kippo - SSH Honeypot

Stack
Updated
2023-11-19
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2009-11-10
History
5 history points
License
Unknown
Issues
83 open
Forks
278
Commits
287 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
matanolabs/matano

Open source security data lake for threat hunting, detection & response, and cybersecurity analytics at petabyte scale on AWS

Updated
2025-01-08
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2022-07-14
History
6 history points
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
55 open
Forks
120
Commits
576 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
cossacklabs/acra

Database security suite. Database proxy with field-level encryption, search through encrypted data, SQL injections prevention, intrusion detection, honeypots. Supports client-side and proxy-side ("transparent") encryption. SQL, NoSQL.

Updated
2026-04-23
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2016-11-21
History
6 history points
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
29 open
Forks
140
Commits
1,059 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
0 0.0%
lunasec-io/lunasec

LunaSec - Dependency Security Scanner that automatically notifies you about vulnerabilities like Log4Shell or node-ipc in your Pull Requests and Builds. Protect yourself in 30 seconds with the LunaTrace GitHub App: https://github.com/marketplace/lunatrace-by-lunasec/

Updated
2024-05-02
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2021-03-15
History
6 history points
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
98 open
Forks
165
Commits
3,454 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
CERT-Polska/Artemis

A modular vulnerability scanner with automatic report generation capabilities.

Updated
2026-10-06
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2020-11-06
History
5 history points
License
BSD-3-Clause
Issues
47 open
Forks
150
Commits
2,684 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
certtools/intelmq

IntelMQ is a solution for IT security teams for collecting and processing security feeds using a message queuing protocol.

Updated
2026-04-28
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2014-06-24
History
5 history points
License
AGPL-3.0
Issues
259 open
Forks
318
Commits
8,269 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
bountyyfi/lonkero

Lonkero - Wraps around your attack surface. Professional-grade scanner for real penetration testing. Fast. Modular. Rust.

Updated
2026-08-16
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2025-12-05
History
5 history points
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
12 open
Forks
92
Commits
969 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Abacus-Group-RTO/legion

Legion is an open source, easy-to-use, super-extensible and semi-automated network penetration testing tool that aids in discovery, reconnaissance and exploitation of information systems.

Archived
Stack
Updated
2024-11-04
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2018-09-19
History
5 history points
License
GPL-3.0
Issues
73 open
Forks
184
Commits
545 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
tenzir/tenzir

Tenzir is the data pipeline engine for security teams.

AI dev
Updated
2026-10-05
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2012-03-21
History
5 history points
License
BSD-3-Clause
Issues
Disabled
Forks
110
Commits
29,605 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
fingerprintjs/fingerprintjs-android

Free library for identifying and fingerprinting Android devices. MIT license, no restrictions on usage in production.

Updated
2025-08-08
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2020-10-20
History
5 history points
License
MIT
Issues
8 open
Forks
122
Commits
313 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
pompelmi/pompelmi

ClamAV antivirus scanning for Node.js — scan file uploads with a single function call. Zero dependencies. Typed Symbol verdicts. Local or Docker/clamd.

Updated
2026-05-23
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2026-04-11
History
5 history points
License
ISC
Issues
6 open
Forks
33
Commits
91 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
OpenSOC/opensoc

OpenSOC Apache Hadoop Code

Updated
2020-02-19
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2014-09-01
History
5 history points
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
1 open
Forks
185
Commits
14 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
insidersec/insider

Static Application Security Testing (SAST) engine focused on covering the OWASP Top 10, to make source code analysis to find vulnerabilities right in the source code, focused on a agile and easy to implement software inside your DevOps pipeline. Support the following technologies: Java (Maven and Android), Kotlin (Android), Swift (iOS), .NET Full Framework, C#, and Javascript (Node.js).

Updated
2022-04-10
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2019-11-12
History
5 history points
License
MIT
Issues
21 open
Forks
80
Commits
163 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
selefra/selefra

The open-source policy-as-code software that provides analysis for Multi-Cloud and SaaS environments, you can get insight with natural language (powered by OpenAI).

Updated
2023-08-30
Lists
5 list mentions
First commit
2023-03-21
History
6 history points
License
MPL-2.0
Issues
0 open
Forks
47
Commits
82 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
pfq/PFQ

Functional Network Framework for Multi-Core Architectures

Stack
Updated
2019-05-02
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2011-09-16
History
5 history points
License
GPL-2.0
Issues
0 open
Forks
71
Commits
3,961 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history