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234,016 stars

trimstray/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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Stars234,016
116,474 stars

Hack-with-Github/Awesome-Hacking

A collection of various awesome lists for hackers, pentesters and security researchers

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Stars116,474
84,638 stars

laravel/laravel

Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. We’ve already laid the foundation for your next big idea — freeing you to create without sweating the small things.

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Stars84,638
82,540 stars

Developer-Y/cs-video-courses

List of Computer Science courses with video lectures.

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Stars82,540
74,191 stars

caddyserver/caddy

Fast and extensible multi-platform HTTP/1-2-3 web server with automatic HTTPS

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Stars74,191
72,302 stars

danielmiessler/SecLists

SecLists is the security tester's companion. It's a collection of multiple types of lists used during security assessments, collected in one place. List types include usernames, passwords, URLs, sensitive data patterns, fuzzing payloads, web shells, and many more.

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Stars72,302
48,938 stars

x64dbg/x64dbg

An open-source user mode debugger for Windows. Optimized for reverse engineering and malware analysis.

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Stars48,938
44,382 stars

mitmproxy/mitmproxy

An interactive TLS-capable intercepting HTTP proxy for penetration testers and software developers.

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Stars44,382
40,087 stars

GyulyVGC/sniffnet

Comfortably monitor your Internet traffic 🕵️‍♂️

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Stars40,087
38,220 stars

dotnet/aspnetcore

ASP.NET Core is a cross-platform .NET framework for building modern cloud-based web applications on Windows, Mac, or Linux.

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Stars38,220
37,999 stars

portainer/portainer

Making Docker and Kubernetes management easy.

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Stars37,999
36,990 stars

aquasecurity/trivy

Find vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, SBOM in containers, Kubernetes, code repositories, clouds and more

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Stars36,990
34,800 stars

laravel/framework

Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax.

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Stars34,800
34,147 stars

Lissy93/web-check

🕵️‍♂️ All-in-one OSINT tool for analysing any website

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Stars34,147
33,559 stars

bayandin/awesome-awesomeness

A curated list of awesome awesomeness

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Stars33,559
32,612 stars

OWASP/CheatSheetSeries

The OWASP Cheat Sheet Series was created to provide a concise collection of high value information on specific application security topics.

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Stars32,612
30,731 stars

StevenBlack/hosts

🔒 Consolidating and extending hosts files from several well-curated sources. Optionally pick extensions for porn, social media, and other categories.

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Stars30,731
30,330 stars

trailofbits/algo

Set up a personal VPN in the cloud

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Stars30,330
29,844 stars

projectdiscovery/nuclei

Nuclei is a fast, customizable vulnerability scanner powered by the global security community and built on a simple YAML-based DSL, enabling collaboration to tackle trending vulnerabilities on the internet. It helps you find vulnerabilities in your applications, APIs, networks, DNS, and cloud configurations.

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Stars29,844
29,621 stars

jitsi/jitsi-meet

Jitsi Meet - Secure, Simple and Scalable Video Conferences that you use as a standalone app or embed in your web application.

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Stars29,621
29,514 stars

imthenachoman/How-To-Secure-A-Linux-Server

An evolving how-to guide for securing a Linux server.

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Stars29,514
28,972 stars

wuyouzhuguli/SpringAll

循序渐进,学习Spring Boot、Spring Boot & Shiro、Spring Batch、Spring Cloud、Spring Cloud Alibaba、Spring Security & Spring Security OAuth2,博客Spring系列源码:https://mrbird.cc

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Stars28,972
28,599 stars

envoyproxy/envoy

Cloud-native high-performance edge/middle/service proxy

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Stars28,599
28,331 stars

authelia/authelia

The Single Sign-On Multi-Factor portal for web apps, now OpenID Certified™

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Stars28,331
28,240 stars

Infisical/infisical

Infisical is the open-source platform for secrets, certificates, and privileged access management.

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Stars28,240
28,225 stars

hwdsl2/setup-ipsec-vpn

Set up your own IPsec VPN server in just a few minutes, with IPsec/L2TP, Cisco IPsec and IKEv2. Supports Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS/RHEL, Alpine Linux and Raspberry Pi OS. Includes client config and management scripts.

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Stars28,225
28,211 stars

gitleaks/gitleaks

Find secrets with Gitleaks 🔑

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Stars28,211
28,071 stars

keepassxreboot/keepassxc

KeePassXC is a cross-platform community-driven port of the Windows application “KeePass Password Safe”.

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Stars28,071
27,763 stars

bagisto/bagisto

Free and open source laravel eCommerce platform

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Stars27,763
27,471 stars

PostgREST/postgrest

REST API for any Postgres database

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Stars27,471
27,190 stars

OpenZeppelin/openzeppelin-contracts

OpenZeppelin Contracts is a library for secure smart contract development.

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Stars27,190
27,115 stars

trufflesecurity/trufflehog

Find, verify, and analyze leaked credentials

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Stars27,115
25,067 stars

iBotPeaches/Apktool

A tool for reverse engineering Android apk files

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Stars25,067
24,750 stars

cilium/cilium

eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability

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Stars24,750
24,390 stars

radareorg/radare2

UNIX-like reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset

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Stars24,390
23,406 stars

osquery/osquery

SQL powered operating system instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics.

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Stars23,406
23,345 stars

slimtoolkit/slim

Slim(toolkit): Don't change anything in your container image and minify it by up to 30x (and for compiled languages even more) making it secure too! (free and open source)

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Stars23,345
23,280 stars

shieldfy/API-Security-Checklist

Checklist of the most important security countermeasures when designing, testing, and releasing your API

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Stars23,280
22,568 stars

emberjs/ember.js

Ember.js - A JavaScript framework for creating ambitious web applications

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Stars22,568
22,543 stars

getsops/sops

Simple and flexible tool for managing secrets

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Stars22,543
22,471 stars

drduh/macOS-Security-and-Privacy-Guide

Community guide to securing and improving privacy on macOS.

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Stars22,471
22,387 stars

goauthentik/authentik

The authentication glue you need.

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Stars22,387
21,909 stars

chaitin/SafeLine

SafeLine is a self-hosted WAF(Web Application Firewall) / reverse proxy to protect your web apps from attacks and exploits.

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Stars21,909
21,889 stars

Lissy93/personal-security-checklist

🔒 A compiled checklist of 300+ tips for protecting digital security and privacy in 2023

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Stars21,889
21,703 stars

matomo-org/matomo

Empowering People Ethically 🚀 — Matomo is hiring! Join us → https://matomo.org/jobs Matomo is the leading open-source alternative to Google Analytics, giving you complete control and built-in privacy. Easily collect, visualise, and analyse data from websites & apps. Star us on GitHub ⭐️ – Pull Requests welcome!

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Stars21,703
21,462 stars

MobSF/Mobile-Security-Framework-MobSF

Mobile Security Framework (MobSF) is an automated, all-in-one mobile application (Android/iOS/Windows) pen-testing, malware analysis and security assessment framework capable of performing static and dynamic analysis.

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Stars21,462
21,151 stars

vitessio/vitess

Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL.

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Stars21,151
21,099 stars

Atlas-OS/Atlas

🚀 An open and lightweight modification to Windows, designed to optimize performance, privacy and usability.

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Stars21,099
21,088 stars

FallibleInc/security-guide-for-developers

Security Guide for Developers

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Stars21,088
20,758 stars

twpayne/chezmoi

Manage your dotfiles across multiple diverse machines, securely.

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Stars20,758
20,668 stars

gravitational/teleport

The easiest, and most secure way to access and protect all of your infrastructure.

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Stars20,668
20,404 stars

wagtail/wagtail

A Django content management system focused on flexibility and user experience

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Stars20,404
20,284 stars

nats-io/nats-server

High-Performance server for NATS.io, the cloud and edge native messaging system.

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Stars20,284
19,534 stars

bettercap/bettercap

The Swiss Army knife for 802.11, BLE, HID, CAN-bus, IPv4 and IPv6 networks reconnaissance and MITM attacks.

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Stars19,534
19,518 stars

eosphoros-ai/DB-GPT

open-source agentic AI data assistant for the next generation of AI + Data products.

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Stars19,518
19,378 stars

rizinorg/cutter

Free and Open Source Reverse Engineering Platform powered by rizin

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Stars19,378
18,781 stars

simplex-chat/simplex-chat

SimpleX - the first messaging network operating without user identifiers of any kind - 100% private by design! iOS, Android and desktop apps 📱!

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Stars18,781
18,332 stars

ImranR98/Obtainium

Get Android app updates straight from the source.

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Stars18,332
18,260 stars

InterviewMap/CS-Interview-Knowledge-Map

Build the best interview map. The current content includes JS, network, browser related, performance optimization, security, framework, Git, data structure, algorithm, etc.

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Stars18,260
18,213 stars

fail2ban/fail2ban

Daemon to ban hosts that cause multiple authentication errors

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Stars18,213
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