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szTheory/exifcleaner

Cross-platform desktop GUI app to clean image metadata

AI dev

Stack

TypeScript Electron React Vite Yarn

GitHub topics

#concurrency #dark-mode #desktop-app #electron #exif #exiftool

Updated: 2026-09-24
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2019-12-05
History: 11 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 20 open

2,704

stars

Forks: 166
Commits: 697 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

TokTok/c-toxcore

The future of online communications.

Stack

C CMake Go modules vcpkg

GitHub topics

#cryptography #encryption #network #p2p #security #toxcore

Updated: 2026-10-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-06-24
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 219 open

2,693

stars

Forks: 310
Commits: 5,719 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

CrimsonForge-io/king-phisher

Phishing Campaign Toolkit

Stack

Python Jupyter pip Pipenv

GitHub topics

#king-phisher #phishing #python #security

Updated: 2026-08-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-11-08
History: 7 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 2 open

2,591

stars

Forks: 582
Commits: 2,454 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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rabbitstack/fibratus

Security sensor for realtime threat detection and protection

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#blue-team #detection-engineering #endpoint-detection-response #endpoint-security #etw #forencics

Updated: 2026-09-28
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-04-04
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 43 open

2,554

stars

Forks: 221
Commits: 1,428 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Peergos/Peergos

A p2p, secure file storage, social network and application protocol

Stack

Java

GitHub topics

#cryptography #decentralized #documents #encrypted #encryption #end-to-end-encryption

Updated: 2026-10-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-08-23
History: 8 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 92 open

2,535

stars

Forks: 203
Commits: 7,684 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

aress31/burpgpt

A Burp Suite extension that integrates OpenAI's GPT to perform an additional passive scan for discovering highly bespoke vulnerabilities and enables running traffic-based analysis of any type.

Stack

Java Gradle

GitHub topics

#ai #burp-extensions #burp-plugin #burpsuite #burpsuite-extender #cybersecurity

Updated: 2024-06-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-04-08
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: Disabled

2,389

stars

Forks: 290
Commits: 79 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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jtpereyda/boofuzz

A fork and successor of the Sulley Fuzzing Framework

Stack

Python Flask pytest Tornado pip Poetry

GitHub topics

#fuzzing #python #security

Updated: 2026-09-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-04-03
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 101 open

2,362

stars

Forks: 382
Commits: 1,456 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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cider-security-research/cicd-goat

A deliberately vulnerable CI/CD environment. Learn CI/CD security through multiple challenges.

Stack

Python Electron Flask pytest React npm PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#appsec #cicd #ctf #devops #devsecops #gitlab

Updated: 2024-07-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-04-11
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 0 open

2,314

stars

Forks: 425
Commits: 69 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Zouuup/landrun

Run any Linux process in a secure, unprivileged sandbox using Landlock. Think firejail, but lightweight, user-friendly, and baked into the kernel.

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#cli #golang #kernel #landlock #sandbox #sandbox-environment

Updated: 2026-07-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-03-21
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 5 open

2,294

stars

Forks: 53
Commits: 112 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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stacklok/toolhive

ToolHive is an enterprise-grade platform for running and managing Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers.

AI dev

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#ai #ai-security #aicodeassistant #golang #kubernetes #mcp

Updated: 2026-10-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-03-13
History: 9 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 385 open

2,255

stars

Forks: 315
Commits: 4,442 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

python-security/pyt

A Static Analysis Tool for Detecting Security Vulnerabilities in Python Web Applications

Stack

Python pip

GitHub topics

#abstract-syntax #abstract-syntax-tree #control-flow-graph #dataflow #dataflow-analysis #fixed-point

Updated: 2020-12-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-03-06
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 28 open

2,198

stars

Forks: 247
Commits: 1,576 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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beelzebub-labs/beelzebub

A secure low code deception runtime framework, leveraging AI for System Virtualization.

Stack

Go Astro Cobra Next.js React Go modules pnpm

GitHub topics

#acis #agentic-ai-security #cloudnative #cloudsecurity #cybersecurity #deception

Updated: 2026-09-28
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2022-05-08
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 9 open

2,187

stars

Forks: 212
Commits: 401 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ruby-oauth/oauth2

🔐 oauth2 - A Ruby wrapper for the OAuth 2.0, & 2.1 Authorization Frameworks, including OpenID Connect (OIDC)

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#authentication #authorization #oauth2 #oauth2-client #oidc #oidc-client

Updated: 2026-09-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-04-22
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 3 open

2,180

stars

Forks: 627
Commits: 1,885 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mozilla/MozDef

DEPRECATED - MozDef: Mozilla Enterprise Defense Platform

Archived

Stack

Python Celery npm pip

GitHub topics

#abandoned #elasticsearch #elk #elk-stack #python #security

Updated: 2021-11-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-02-18
History: 5 history points
License: MPL-2.0
Issues: 0 open

2,159

stars

Forks: 321
Commits: 5,995 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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lirantal/is-website-vulnerable

finds publicly known security vulnerabilities in a website's frontend JavaScript libraries

AI dev

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#hacktoberfest #lighthouse #nodejs #scan #security #security-vulnerabilities

Updated: 2026-08-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-10-05
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 0 open

2,043

stars

Forks: 127
Commits: 99 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

trycompai/comp

AI Native platform to get companies compliant - Vanta & Drata Alternative

AI dev

Stack

TypeScript Electron Express NestJS Next.js Bun npm

GitHub topics

#ai #audit #authjs #compliance #drata #gdpr

Updated: 2026-10-09
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2025-01-15
History: 136 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 49 open

2,035

stars

Forks: 435
Commits: 8,239 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +7 +0.3%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

HolyBugx/HolyTips

A Collection of Notes, Checklists, Writeups on Bug Bounty Hunting and Web Application Security.

GitHub topics

#api #api-security #bugbounty #bugbounty-writeups #bugbountytips #checklist

Updated: 2021-09-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-03-21
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 0 open

2,022

stars

Forks: 338
Commits: 46 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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GrapheneOS/hardened_malloc

Hardened allocator designed for modern systems. It has integration into Android's Bionic libc and can be used externally with musl and glibc as a dynamic library for use on other Linux-based platforms. It will gain more portability/integration over time.

Stack

GitHub topics

#grapheneos #hardening #malloc #malloc-library #memory #memory-allocation

Updated: 2026-10-03
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2018-08-21
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 52 open

2,018

stars

Forks: 165
Commits: 829 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Nekmo/dirhunt

Find web directories without bruteforce

Stack

Python npm pip

GitHub topics

#crawler #dirscanner #pentesting #python #security #security-tools

Updated: 2023-10-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-01-05
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 15 open

2,009

stars

Forks: 272
Commits: 329 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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pyupio/safety

Safety checks Python dependencies for known security vulnerabilities and suggests the proper remediations for vulnerabilities detected.

Stack

Python pip uv

GitHub topics

#cicd #dependency-management #devsecops #open-source-security #package-management #python

Updated: 2026-09-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-10-19
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 97 open

1,996

stars

Forks: 206
Commits: 883 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

GitGuardian/APISecurityBestPractices

Resources to help you keep secrets (API keys, database credentials, certificates, ...) out of source code and remediate the issue in case of a leaked API key. Made available by GitGuardian.

GitHub topics

#api #keys #leaked #security #security-tools

Updated: 2019-07-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-05-11
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 11 open

1,984

stars

Forks: 101
Commits: 32 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

cossacklabs/themis

Easy to use cryptographic framework for data protection: secure messaging with forward secrecy and secure data storage. Has unified APIs across 14 platforms.

Stack

C Android Express React React Native Bundler Cargo CMake

GitHub topics

#asymmetric-cryptography #authentication #cryptography #cryptography-library #encryption #golang

Updated: 2026-04-24
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2014-09-13
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 31 open

1,978

stars

Forks: 159
Commits: 1,832 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

GrrrDog/weird_proxies

Reverse proxies cheatsheet

Stack

Python

GitHub topics

#cheatsheet #pentesting #reverse-proxy #security

Updated: 2023-11-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-12-17
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 2 open

1,890

stars

Forks: 220
Commits: 112 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

lazaronixon/authentication-zero

An authentication system generator for Rails applications.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#api #auth #authentication #generator #rails #rails-authentication

Updated: 2024-12-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-02-14
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 20 open

1,874

stars

Forks: 66
Commits: 536 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

sleventyeleven/linuxprivchecker

linuxprivchecker.py -- a Linux Privilege Escalation Check Script

Stack

Python PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#ctf-tools #hackthebox #htb #linux-privilege-escalation #linux-security #oscp

Updated: 2022-01-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-03-02
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: Disabled

1,849

stars

Forks: 544
Commits: 37 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

vulnersCom/getsploit

Search and download public exploits from the Vulners database — online, or fully offline from a local SQLite FTS5 index.

Stack

Python pytest uv

GitHub topics

#cli #cve #exploit #exploit-database #exploitdb #exploits

Updated: 2026-10-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-06-04
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 6 open

1,827

stars

Forks: 245
Commits: 44 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

0vercl0k/wtf

wtf is a distributed, code-coverage guided, customizable, cross-platform snapshot-based fuzzer designed for attacking user and / or kernel-mode targets running on Microsoft Windows and Linux user-mode (experimental!).

Stack

C++ pytest Tornado Cargo CMake Conan

GitHub topics

#bochs #bochscpu #code-coverage #fuzz-testing #fuzzer #fuzzing

Updated: 2026-08-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-07-10
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 24 open

1,808

stars

Forks: 155
Commits: 98 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

GreenmaskIO/greenmask

Database anonymization and test data management

Stack

Go Cobra Go modules pip

GitHub topics

#anonymization #backup #data-masking #database #dba #differential-privacy

Updated: 2026-10-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-03-31
History: 1 history point
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 50 open

1,781

stars

Forks: 75
Commits: 582 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

Safe3/uusec-waf

Industry-leading free, high-performance, AI and semantic technology Web Application Firewall and API Security Gateway (WAAP) - UUSEC WAF.

Stack

Shell

GitHub topics

#api-gateway #api-security #application-security #data-mask #ddos #hips

Updated: 2026-09-06
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2022-09-18
History: 8 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 83 open

1,713

stars

Forks: 170
Commits: 619 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

matanolabs/matano

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

Stack

Rust Cargo Gradle npm

GitHub topics

#alerting #apache-iceberg #aws #aws-security #big-data #cloud

Updated: 2025-01-08
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2022-07-14
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 55 open

1,699

stars

Forks: 120
Commits: 576 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

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