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rcoh/angle-grinder

Slice and dice logs on the command line

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#analytics #cli-app #logging #rust

Updated: 2026-02-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-02-24
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 29 open

3,762

stars

Forks: 76
Commits: 404 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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OWASP/ASVS

Application Security Verification Standard

Stack

HTML pip

Updated: 2026-10-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-10-30
History: 5 history points
License: CC-BY-SA-4.0
Issues: 112 open

3,674

stars

Forks: 837
Commits: 3,285 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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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: 2026-09-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-06-23
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 14 open

3,653

stars

Forks: 506
Commits: 318 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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ankane/pgsync

Sync data from one Postgres database to another

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#postgresql

Updated: 2026-08-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2015-12-08
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 14 open

3,474

stars

Forks: 219
Commits: 698 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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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: 41 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 0 open

3,427

stars

Forks: 574
Commits: 691 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: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 6 open

3,409

stars

Forks: 208
Commits: 153 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: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 3 open

3,398

stars

Forks: 167
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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traviscross/mtr

Official repository for mtr, a network diagnostic tool

Stack

Updated: 2026-09-24
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2013-02-01
History: 9 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 141 open

3,366

stars

Forks: 375
Commits: 984 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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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: 11 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 44 open

3,315

stars

Forks: 99
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: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 29 open

3,001

stars

Forks: 261
Commits: 165 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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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: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 478 open

2,930

stars

Forks: 465
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: 41 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

2,886

stars

Forks: 786
Commits: 52 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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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: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 3 open

2,858

stars

Forks: 480
Commits: 72 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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bugcrowd/bugcrowd_university

Open source education content for the researcher community

Updated: 2026-08-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-07-30
History: 5 history points
License: CC-BY-4.0
Issues: 20 open

2,805

stars

Forks: 560
Commits: 101 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website 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: 2026-09-21
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2019-01-18
History: 12 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 49 open

2,761

stars

Forks: 120
Commits: 1,809 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: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

2,753

stars

Forks: 752
Commits: 387 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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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: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 1 open

2,745

stars

Forks: 348
Commits: 53 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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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: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 13 open

2,719

stars

Forks: 236
Commits: 659 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

strace/strace

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

AI dev

Stack

Updated: 2026-10-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 1999-02-19
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 109 open

2,715

stars

Forks: 502
Commits: 11,168 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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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: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 12 open

2,707

stars

Forks: 248
Commits: 40 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: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 3 open

2,638

stars

Forks: 305
Commits: 20 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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rbsec/sslscan

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

Stack

Updated: 2026-09-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-08-11
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 66 open

2,632

stars

Forks: 419
Commits: 777 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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usnistgov/macos_security

macOS Security Compliance Project

Stack

YAML pytest pip uv

GitHub topics

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

Updated: 2026-10-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-06-05
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 28 open

2,500

stars

Forks: 303
Commits: 2,583 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

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: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

2,487

stars

Forks: 259
Commits: 98 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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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: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 40 open

2,478

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: 2026-10-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-03-12
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 32 open

2,456

stars

Forks: 212
Commits: 200 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

htrgouvea/nipe

An engine to make Tor network your default gateway

Stack

Perl

GitHub topics

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

Updated: 2026-09-13
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2015-09-07
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 14 open

2,398

stars

Forks: 341
Commits: 502 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 25 open

2,306

stars

Forks: 275
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: 5 history points
License: CC0-1.0
Issues: 1 open

2,271

stars

Forks: 464
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: 5 history points
License: CC-BY-4.0
Issues: 12 open

2,228

stars

Forks: 196
Commits: 441 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

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