awesome-security

A collection of awesome software, libraries, documents, books, resources and cools stuffs about security.
https://github.com/sbilly/awesome-security

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  - Awesome Incident Response - A curated list of resources for incident response.
  - Awesome PCAP Tools - A collection of tools developed by other researchers in the Computer Science area to process network traces.
  - Awesome Personal Security - A curated list of digital security and privacy tips, with links to further resources.
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  - Awesome Threat Intelligence - A curated list of threat intelligence resources.
  - Awesome SOAR - A curated Cyber "Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)" resources list.
  - Awesome YARA - A curated list of awesome YARA rules, tools, and people.
  - Awesome ARM Exploitation - A curated list of ARM exploitation resources.
  - Awesome Pentest Cheat Sheets - Collection of the cheat sheets useful for pentesting
  - Awesome Bluetooth Security - A curated list of Bluetooth security resources.
  - Awesome Censys Queries - A collection of fascinating and bizarre Censys Search Queries.
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  - Awesome Cyber Skills - A curated list of hacking environments where you can train your cyber skills legally and safely.
  - Awesome Security Talks & Videos - A curated list of awesome security talks, organized by year and then conference.
  - Awesome Privacy - A curated list of privacy-respecting software and services.
  - Awesome Threat Modeling - A curated list of Threat Modeling resources.
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  - Security Acronyms - A curated list of security related acronyms and concepts
  - Awesome Security Newsletters - A curated list of awesome newsletters to keep up to date on security news via e-mail.
  - Awesome WebSocket Security - A curated list of WebSocket security resources.
  - Awesome Industrial Control System Security - A curated list of resources related to Industrial Control System (ICS) security.
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Endpoint
- Mobile / Android / iOS
  - Themis - High-level multi-platform cryptographic framework for protecting sensitive data: secure messaging with forward secrecy and secure data storage (AES256GCM), suits for building end-to-end encrypted applications.
  - dotPeek - Free-of-charge standalone tool based on ReSharper's bundled decompiler.
  - jadx - Command line and GUI tools for produce Java source code from Android Dex and Apk files.
  - frida - Dynamic instrumentation toolkit for developers, reverse-engineers, and security researchers.
  - Apktool - A tool for reverse engineering Android apk files.
  - Quark-Engine - An Obfuscation-Neglect Android Malware Scoring System.
  - OSX Security Awesome - A collection of OSX and iOS security resources
  - enjarify - A tool for translating Dalvik bytecode to equivalent Java bytecode.
  - 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.
  - reFlutter - Flutter Reverse Engineering Framework
  - OWASP Mobile Security Testing Guide - A comprehensive manual for mobile app security testing and reverse engineering.
  - Mobile Security Wiki - A collection of mobile security resources.
  - SecMobi Wiki - A collection of mobile security resources which including articles, blogs, books, groups, projects, tools and conferences. *
  - Android Storage Extractor - A tool to extract local data storage of an Android application in one click.
  - AMExtractor - AMExtractor can dump out the physical content of your Android device even without kernel source code.
  - UDcide - Android Malware Behavior Editor.
  - Mobile Security Wiki - A collection of mobile security resources.
- Anti-Virus / Anti-Malware
  - Linux Malware Detect - A malware scanner for Linux designed around the threats faced in shared hosted environments.
  - ClamAv - ClamAV® is an open-source antivirus engine for detecting trojans, viruses, malware & other malicious threats.
  - Fastfinder - Fast customisable cross-platform suspicious file finder. Supports md5/sha1/sha256 hashs, litteral/wildcard strings, regular expressions and YARA rules. Can easily be packed to be deployed on any windows / linux host.
  - LOKI - Simple Indicators of Compromise and Incident Response Scanner
  - rkhunter - A Rootkit Hunter for Linux
- Forensics
  - mig - MIG is a platform to perform investigative surgery on remote endpoints. It enables investigators to obtain information from large numbers of systems in parallel, thus accelerating investigation of incidents and day-to-day operations security.
  - mig - MIG is a platform to perform investigative surgery on remote endpoints. It enables investigators to obtain information from large numbers of systems in parallel, thus accelerating investigation of incidents and day-to-day operations security.
  - Logdissect - CLI utility and Python API for analyzing log files and other data.
  - Maigret - Maigret collect a dossier on a person by username only, checking for accounts on a huge number of sites and gathering all the available information from web pages.
  - Volatility - Python based memory extraction and analysis framework.
  - grr - GRR Rapid Response is an incident response framework focused on remote live forensics.
  - Rekall - The Rekall Framework is a completely open collection of tools, implemented in Python under the Apache and GNU General Public License, for the extraction and analysis of digital artifacts computer systems.
  - ir-rescue - *ir-rescue* is a Windows Batch script and a Unix Bash script to comprehensively collect host forensic data during incident response.
  - Meerkat - PowerShell-based Windows artifact collection for threat hunting and incident response.
  - LiME - Linux Memory Extractor
- Configuration Management
  - Fleet device management - Fleet is the lightweight, programmable telemetry platform for servers and workstations. Get comprehensive, customizable data from all your devices and operating systems.
- Authentication
  - Stegcloak - Securely assign Digital Authenticity to any written text
  - google-authenticator - The Google Authenticator project includes implementations of one-time passcode generators for several mobile platforms, as well as a pluggable authentication module (PAM). One-time passcodes are generated using open standards developed by the Initiative for Open Authentication (OATH) (which is unrelated to OAuth). These implementations support the HMAC-Based One-time Password (HOTP) algorithm specified in RFC 4226 and the Time-based One-time Password (TOTP) algorithm specified in RFC 6238. [Tutorials: How to set up two-factor authentication for SSH login on Linux](http://xmodulo.com/two-factor-authentication-ssh-login-linux.html)
- Content Disarm & Reconstruct
  - DocBleach - An open-source Content Disarm & Reconstruct software sanitizing Office, PDF and RTF Documents.
Network
- Scanning / Pentesting
  - Kali - Kali Linux is a Debian-derived Linux distribution designed for digital forensics and penetration testing. Kali Linux is preinstalled with numerous penetration-testing programs, including nmap (a port scanner), Wireshark (a packet analyzer), John the Ripper (a password cracker), and Aircrack-ng (a software suite for penetration-testing wireless LANs).
  - Anevicon - The most powerful UDP-based load generator, written in Rust.
  - tsurugi - heavily customized Linux distribution that designed to support DFIR investigations, malware analysis and OSINT activities. It is based on Ubuntu 20.04(64-bit with a 5.15.12 custom kernel)
  - Metasploit Framework - A tool for developing and executing exploit code against a remote target machine. Other important sub-projects include the Opcode Database, shellcode archive and related research.
  - Amass - Amass performs DNS subdomain enumeration by scraping the largest number of disparate data sources, recursive brute forcing, crawling of web archives, permuting and altering names, reverse DNS sweeping and other techniques.
  - Sublist3r - Fast subdomains enumeration tool for penetration testers
  - Deepfence ThreatMapper - Apache v2, powerful runtime vulnerability scanner for kubernetes, virtual machines and serverless.
  - Netz - Discover internet-wide misconfigurations, using zgrab2 and others.
  - Boofuzz - Fuzzing engine and fuzz testing framework.
  - Deepfence SecretScanner - Find secrets and passwords in container images and file systems.
  - Cognito Scanner - CLI tool to pentest Cognito AWS instance. It implements three attacks: unwanted account creation, account oracle and identity pool escalation
  - pig - A Linux packet crafting tool.
  - Pompem - Pompem is an open source tool, which is designed to automate the search for exploits in major databases. Developed in Python, has a system of advanced search, thus facilitating the work of pentesters and ethical hackers. In its current version, performs searches in databases: Exploit-db, 1337day, Packetstorm Security...
  - monsoon - Very flexible and fast interactive HTTP enumeration/fuzzing.
  - RustScan - Faster Nmap scanning with Rust. Take a 17 minute Nmap scan down to 19 seconds.
  - Legion - Open source semi-automated discovery and reconnaissance network penetration testing framework.
  - Finshir - A coroutines-driven Low & Slow traffic generator, written in Rust.
  - Nmap - Nmap is a free and open source utility for network discovery and security auditing.
  - Lonkero - Enterprise-grade web vulnerability scanner with 60+ attack modules, built in Rust for penetration testing and security assessments.
- Monitoring / Logging
  - Falco - The cloud-native runtime security project and de facto Kubernetes threat detection engine now part of the CNCF.
  - wazuh - Wazuh is a free and open source platform used for threat prevention, detection, and response. It is capable of monitoring file system changes, system calls and inventory changes.
  - opensnitch - OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux port of the Little Snitch application firewall
  - passivedns - A tool to collect DNS records passively to aid Incident handling, Network Security Monitoring (NSM) and general digital forensics. PassiveDNS sniffs traffic from an interface or reads a pcap-file and outputs the DNS-server answers to a log file. PassiveDNS can cache/aggregate duplicate DNS answers in-memory, limiting the amount of data in the logfile without loosing the essens in the DNS answer.
  - Fibratus - Fibratus is a tool for exploration and tracing of the Windows kernel. It is able to capture the most of the Windows kernel activity - process/thread creation and termination, file system I/O, registry, network activity, DLL loading/unloading and much more. Fibratus has a very simple CLI which encapsulates the machinery to start the kernel event stream collector, set kernel event filters or run the lightweight Python modules called filaments.
  - Matano
  - BoxyHQ - Open source API for security and compliance audit logging.
  - Substation - Substation is a cloud native data pipeline and transformation toolkit written in Go.
  - VAST - Open source security data pipeline engine for structured event data, supporting high-volume telemetry ingestion, compaction, and retrieval; purpose-built for security content execution, guided threat hunting, and large-scale investigation.
  - justniffer - Justniffer is a network protocol analyzer that captures network traffic and produces logs in a customized way, can emulate Apache web server log files, track response times and extract all "intercepted" files from the HTTP traffic.
  - sagan - Sagan uses a 'Snort like' engine and rules to analyze logs (syslog/event log/snmptrap/netflow/etc).
  - Sigma2KQL - A repository of all SIGMA rules converted to KQL that runs on a weekly schedule to update the repository and align with the up to date version of the SIGMA rules repository.
  - TerraSigma - A repository of all SIGMA rules converted to Microsoft Sentinel Terraform Scheduled analytic resources. The repository runs on a weekly schedule to update the repository and align with the up to date version of the SIGMA rules repository. Proper entity mapping is completed for the rules to ensure the repo is plug-and-play.
  - ngrep - ngrep strives to provide most of GNU grep's common features, applying them to the network layer. ngrep is a pcap-aware tool that will allow you to specify extended regular or hexadecimal expressions to match against data payloads of packets. It currently recognizes IPv4/6, TCP, UDP, ICMPv4/6, IGMP and Raw across Ethernet, PPP, SLIP, FDDI, Token Ring and null interfaces, and understands BPF filter logic in the same fashion as more common packet sniffing tools, such as tcpdump and snoop.
  - Sigma2SPL - A repository of all SIGMA rules converted to SPL that runs on a weekly schedule to update the repository and align with the up to date version of the SIGMA rules repository.
- Firewall
  - pfSense - Firewall and Router FreeBSD distribution.
  - OPNsense - is an open source, easy-to-use and easy-to-build FreeBSD based firewall and routing platform. OPNsense includes most of the features available in expensive commercial firewalls, and more in many cases. It brings the rich feature set of commercial offerings with the benefits of open and verifiable sources.
  - fwknop - Protects ports via Single Packet Authorization in your firewall.
- IDS / IPS / Host IDS / Host IPS
  - Snort - Snort is a free and open source network intrusion prevention system (NIPS) and network intrusion detection system (NIDS)created by Martin Roesch in 1998. Snort is now developed by Sourcefire, of which Roesch is the founder and CTO. In 2009, Snort entered InfoWorld's Open Source Hall of Fame as one of the "greatest [pieces of] open source software of all time".
  - Lynis - an open source security auditing tool for Linux/Unix.
  - Zeek - Zeek is a powerful network analysis framework that is much different from the typical IDS you may know.
  - Stealth - File integrity checker that leaves virtually no sediment. Controller runs from another machine, which makes it hard for an attacker to know that the file system is being checked at defined pseudo random intervals over SSH. Highly recommended for small to medium deployments.
  - AIEngine - AIEngine is a next generation interactive/programmable Python/Ruby/Java/Lua packet inspection engine with capabilities of learning without any human intervention, NIDS(Network Intrusion Detection System) functionality, DNS domain classification, network collector, network forensics and many others.
  - Suricata - Suricata is a high performance Network IDS, IPS and Network Security Monitoring engine. Open Source and owned by a community run non-profit foundation, the Open Information Security Foundation (OISF). Suricata is developed by the OISF and its supporting vendors.
  - zeek2es - An open source tool to convert Zeek logs to Elastic/OpenSearch. You can also output pure JSON from Zeek's TSV logs!
  - CrowdSec - CrowdSec is a free, modern & collaborative behavior detection engine, coupled with a global IP reputation network. It stacks on Fail2Ban's philosophy but is IPV6 compatible and 60x faster (Go vs Python), uses Grok patterns to parse logs and YAML scenario to identify behaviors. CrowdSec is engineered for modern Cloud / Containers / VM based infrastructures (by decoupling detection and remediation). Once detected, you can remedy threats with various bouncers (firewall block, nginx http 403, Captchas, etc.) while the aggressive IPs can be sent to CrowdSec for curation before being shared among all users to further strengthen the community
  - sshwatch - IPS for SSH similar to DenyHosts written in Python. It also can gather information about attacker during the attack in a log.
  - SSHGuard - A software to protect services in addition to SSH, written in C
  - Denyhosts - Thwart SSH dictionary based attacks and brute force attacks.
  - Fail2Ban - Scans log files and takes action on IPs that show malicious behavior.
  - DrKeithJones.com - A blog on cyber security and network security monitoring.
- Docker Images for Penetration Testing & Security
- VPN
  - OpenVPN - OpenVPN is an open source software application that implements virtual private network (VPN) techniques for creating secure point-to-point or site-to-site connections in routed or bridged configurations and remote access facilities. It uses a custom security protocol that utilizes SSL/TLS for key exchange.
  - Firezone - Open-source VPN server and egress firewall for Linux built on WireGuard that makes it simple to manage secure remote access to your company’s private networks. Firezone is easy to set up (all dependencies are bundled thanks to Chef Omnibus), secure, performant, and self hostable.
  - TorForge - Advanced transparent Tor proxy with kernel-level iptables routing, post-quantum encryption (Kyber768), kill switch, steganography mode, and AI-powered circuit selection.
- Anti-Spam
  - SpamAssassin - A powerful and popular email spam filter employing a variety of detection technique.
  - Spam Scanner - Anti-Spam Scanning Service and Anti-Spam API by [@niftylettuce](https://github.com/niftylettuce).
  - rspamd - Fast, free and open-source spam filtering system.
- Sniffer
  - netsniff-ng - netsniff-ng is a free Linux networking toolkit, a Swiss army knife for your daily Linux network plumbing if you will. Its gain of performance is reached by zero-copy mechanisms, so that on packet reception and transmission the kernel does not need to copy packets from kernel space to user space and vice versa.
  - Live HTTP headers - Live HTTP headers is a free firefox addon to see your browser requests in real time. It shows the entire headers of the requests and can be used to find the security loopholes in implementations.
  - netsniff-ng - netsniff-ng is a free Linux networking toolkit, a Swiss army knife for your daily Linux network plumbing if you will. Its gain of performance is reached by zero-copy mechanisms, so that on packet reception and transmission the kernel does not need to copy packets from kernel space to user space and vice versa.
- Security Information & Event Management
  - Prelude - Prelude is a Universal "Security Information & Event Management" (SIEM) system. Prelude collects, normalizes, sorts, aggregates, correlates and reports all security-related events independently of the product brand or license giving rise to such events; Prelude is "agentless".
  - FIR - Fast Incident Response, a cybersecurity incident management platform.
  - LogESP - Open Source SIEM (Security Information and Event Management system).
  - OSSIM - OSSIM provides all of the features that a security professional needs from a SIEM offering – event collection, normalization, and correlation.
- Fast Packet Processing
  - netmap - netmap is a framework for high speed packet I/O. Together with its companion VALE software switch, it is implemented as a single kernel module and available for FreeBSD, Linux and now also Windows.
  - PACKET_MMAP/TPACKET/AF_PACKET - It's fine to use PACKET_MMAP to improve the performance of the capture and transmission process in Linux.
  - PFQ - PFQ is a functional networking framework designed for the Linux operating system that allows efficient packets capture/transmission (10G and beyond), in-kernel functional processing and packets steering across sockets/end-points.
  - PACKET_MMAP/TPACKET/AF_PACKET - It's fine to use PACKET_MMAP to improve the performance of the capture and transmission process in Linux.
  - netmap - netmap is a framework for high speed packet I/O. Together with its companion VALE software switch, it is implemented as a single kernel module and available for FreeBSD, Linux and now also Windows.
  - PACKET_MMAP/TPACKET/AF_PACKET - It's fine to use PACKET_MMAP to improve the performance of the capture and transmission process in Linux.
  - PACKET_MMAP/TPACKET/AF_PACKET - It's fine to use PACKET_MMAP to improve the performance of the capture and transmission process in Linux.
  - PACKET_MMAP/TPACKET/AF_PACKET - It's fine to use PACKET_MMAP to improve the performance of the capture and transmission process in Linux.
  - PACKET_MMAP/TPACKET/AF_PACKET - It's fine to use PACKET_MMAP to improve the performance of the capture and transmission process in Linux.
  - PACKET_MMAP/TPACKET/AF_PACKET - It's fine to use PACKET_MMAP to improve the performance of the capture and transmission process in Linux.
  - PACKET_MMAP/TPACKET/AF_PACKET - It's fine to use PACKET_MMAP to improve the performance of the capture and transmission process in Linux.
  - PACKET_MMAP/TPACKET/AF_PACKET - It's fine to use PACKET_MMAP to improve the performance of the capture and transmission process in Linux.
- Honey Pot / Honey Net
  - Conpot - ICS/SCADA Honeypot. Conpot is a low interactive server side Industrial Control Systems honeypot designed to be easy to deploy, modify and extend. By providing a range of common industrial control protocols we created the basics to build your own system, capable to emulate complex infrastructures to convince an adversary that he just found a huge industrial complex. To improve the deceptive capabilities, we also provided the possibility to server a custom human machine interface to increase the honeypots attack surface. The response times of the services can be artificially delayed to mimic the behaviour of a system under constant load. Because we are providing complete stacks of the protocols, Conpot can be accessed with productive HMI's or extended with real hardware. Conpot is developed under the umbrella of the Honeynet Project and on the shoulders of a couple of very big giants.
  - T-Pot Honeypot Distro - T-Pot is based on the network installer of Ubuntu Server 16/17.x LTS. The honeypot daemons as well as other support components being used have been containerized using docker. This allows us to run multiple honeypot daemons on the same network interface while maintaining a small footprint and constrain each honeypot within its own environment. Installation over vanilla Ubuntu - [T-Pot Autoinstall](https://github.com/dtag-dev-sec/t-pot-autoinstall) - This script will install T-Pot 16.04/17.10 on a fresh Ubuntu 16.04.x LTS (64bit). It is intended to be used on hosted servers, where an Ubuntu base image is given and there is no ability to install custom ISO images. Successfully tested on vanilla Ubuntu 16.04.3 in VMware.
  - HoneyDrive - HoneyDrive is the premier honeypot Linux distro. It is a virtual appliance (OVA) with Xubuntu Desktop 12.04.4 LTS edition installed. It contains over 10 pre-installed and pre-configured honeypot software packages such as Kippo SSH honeypot, Dionaea and Amun malware honeypots, Honeyd low-interaction honeypot, Glastopf web honeypot and Wordpot, Conpot SCADA/ICS honeypot, Thug and PhoneyC honeyclients and more. Additionally it includes many useful pre-configured scripts and utilities to analyze, visualize and process the data it can capture, such as Kippo-Graph, Honeyd-Viz, DionaeaFR, an ELK stack and much more. Lastly, almost 90 well-known malware analysis, forensics and network monitoring related tools are also present in the distribution.
  - Kippo - Kippo is a medium interaction SSH honeypot designed to log brute force attacks and, most importantly, the entire shell interaction performed by the attacker.
  - HoneyPy - HoneyPy is a low to medium interaction honeypot. It is intended to be easy to: deploy, extend functionality with plugins, and apply custom configurations.
  - Amun - Amun Python-based low-interaction Honeypot.
  - HonSSH - HonSSH is a high-interaction Honey Pot solution. HonSSH will sit between an attacker and a honey pot, creating two separate SSH connections between them.
  - Conpot - ICS/SCADA Honeypot. Conpot is a low interactive server side Industrial Control Systems honeypot designed to be easy to deploy, modify and extend. By providing a range of common industrial control protocols we created the basics to build your own system, capable to emulate complex infrastructures to convince an adversary that he just found a huge industrial complex. To improve the deceptive capabilities, we also provided the possibility to server a custom human machine interface to increase the honeypots attack surface. The response times of the services can be artificially delayed to mimic the behaviour of a system under constant load. Because we are providing complete stacks of the protocols, Conpot can be accessed with productive HMI's or extended with real hardware. Conpot is developed under the umbrella of the Honeynet Project and on the shoulders of a couple of very big giants.
  - Glastopf - Glastopf is a Honeypot which emulates thousands of vulnerabilities to gather data from attacks targeting web applications. The principle behind it is very simple: Reply the correct response to the attacker exploiting the web application.
  - HoneyDrive - HoneyDrive is the premier honeypot Linux distro. It is a virtual appliance (OVA) with Xubuntu Desktop 12.04.4 LTS edition installed. It contains over 10 pre-installed and pre-configured honeypot software packages such as Kippo SSH honeypot, Dionaea and Amun malware honeypots, Honeyd low-interaction honeypot, Glastopf web honeypot and Wordpot, Conpot SCADA/ICS honeypot, Thug and PhoneyC honeyclients and more. Additionally it includes many useful pre-configured scripts and utilities to analyze, visualize and process the data it can capture, such as Kippo-Graph, Honeyd-Viz, DionaeaFR, an ELK stack and much more. Lastly, almost 90 well-known malware analysis, forensics and network monitoring related tools are also present in the distribution.
  - Cuckoo Sandbox - Cuckoo Sandbox is an Open Source software for automating analysis of suspicious files. To do so it makes use of custom components that monitor the behavior of the malicious processes while running in an isolated environment.
  - T-Pot Honeypot Distro - T-Pot is based on the network installer of Ubuntu Server 16/17.x LTS. The honeypot daemons as well as other support components being used have been containerized using docker. This allows us to run multiple honeypot daemons on the same network interface while maintaining a small footprint and constrain each honeypot within its own environment. Installation over vanilla Ubuntu - [T-Pot Autoinstall](https://github.com/dtag-dev-sec/t-pot-autoinstall) - This script will install T-Pot 16.04/17.10 on a fresh Ubuntu 16.04.x LTS (64bit). It is intended to be used on hosted servers, where an Ubuntu base image is given and there is no ability to install custom ISO images. Successfully tested on vanilla Ubuntu 16.04.3 in VMware.
  - Kojoney - Kojoney is a low level interaction honeypot that emulates an SSH server. The daemon is written in Python using the Twisted Conch libraries.
- Full Packet Capture / Forensic
  - Dshell - Dshell is a network forensic analysis framework. Enables rapid development of plugins to support the dissection of network packet captures.
  - 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.
  - tcpflow - tcpflow is a program that captures data transmitted as part of TCP connections (flows), and stores the data in a way that is convenient for protocol analysis and debugging. Each TCP flow is stored in its own file. Thus, the typical TCP flow will be stored in two files, one for each direction. tcpflow can also process stored 'tcpdump' packet flows.
  - Deepfence PacketStreamer - High-performance remote packet capture and collection tool, distributed tcpdump for cloud native environments.
  - Moloch - Moloch is an open source, large scale IPv4 packet capturing (PCAP), indexing and database system. A simple web interface is provided for PCAP browsing, searching, and exporting. APIs are exposed that allow PCAP data and JSON-formatted session data to be downloaded directly. Simple security is implemented by using HTTPS and HTTP digest password support or by using apache in front. Moloch is not meant to replace IDS engines but instead work along side them to store and index all the network traffic in standard PCAP format, providing fast access. Moloch is built to be deployed across many systems and can scale to handle multiple gigabits/sec of traffic.
  - OpenFPC - OpenFPC is a set of tools that combine to provide a lightweight full-packet network traffic recorder & buffering system. It's design goal is to allow non-expert users to deploy a distributed network traffic recorder on COTS hardware while integrating into existing alert and log management tools.
- Network architecture
  - Network-segmentation-cheat-sheet - This project was created to publish the best practices for segmentation of the corporate network of any company. In general, the schemes in this project are suitable for any company.
Web
- Development
  - Secure by Design - Book that identifies design patterns and coding styles that make lots of security vulnerabilities less likely. (early access, published continuously, final release fall 2017)
  - GuardRails - A GitHub App that provides security feedback in Pull Requests.
  - API Security in Action - Book covering API security including secure development, token-based authentication, JSON Web Tokens, OAuth 2, and Macaroons. (early access, published continuously, final release summer 2020)
  - Full Stack Python Security - A comprehensive look at cybersecurity for Python developers
  - Security Checklist by OWASP - A checklist by OWASP for testing web applications based on assurance level. Covers multiple topics like Architecture, IAM, Sanitization, Cryptography and Secure Configuration.
  - Understanding API Security - Free eBook sampler that gives some context for how API security works in the real world by showing how APIs are put together and how the OAuth protocol can be used to protect them.
  - OAuth 2 in Action - Book that teaches you practical use and deployment of OAuth 2 from the perspectives of a client, an authorization server, and a resource server.
  - KICS - Scans IaC projects for security vulnerabilities, compliance issues, and infrastructure misconfiguration. Currently working with Terraform projects, Kubernetes manifests, Dockerfiles, AWS CloudFormation Templates, and Ansible playbooks.
  - Bearer - Scan code for security risks and vulnerabilities leading to sensitive data exposures.
  - Insider CLI - A open source Static Application Security Testing tool (SAST) written in GoLang for Java (Maven and Android), Kotlin (Android), Swift (iOS), .NET Full Framework, C# and Javascript (Node.js).
  - OWASP ZAP Node API - Leverage the OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) within your NodeJS applications with this official API.
  - Pompelmi - Node.js file-upload malware scanner with MIME sniffing, ZIP-bomb protection and optional YARA rules.
  - Checkov - A static analysis tool for infrastucture as code (Terraform).
- Scanning / Pentesting
  - ZAP - The Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) is an easy to use integrated penetration testing tool for finding vulnerabilities in web applications. It is designed to be used by people with a wide range of security experience and as such is ideal for developers and functional testers who are new to penetration testing. ZAP provides automated scanners as well as a set of tools that allow you to find security vulnerabilities manually.
  - Spyse - Spyse is an OSINT search engine that provides fresh data about the entire web. All the data is stored in its own DB for instant access and interconnected with each other for flexible search.
  - Spyse - Spyse is an OSINT search engine that provides fresh data about the entire web. All the data is stored in its own DB for instant access and interconnected with each other for flexible search.
  - w3af - w3af is a Web Application Attack and Audit Framework. The project’s goal is to create a framework to help you secure your web applications by finding and exploiting all web application vulnerabilities.
  - Scanmycode CE (Community Edition) - Code Scanning/SAST/Static Analysis/Linting using many tools/Scanners with One Report. Currently supports: PHP, Java, Scala, Python, Ruby, Javascript, GO, Secret Scanning, Dependency Confusion, Trojan Source, Open Source and Proprietary Checks (total ca. 1000 checks)
  - Cyclops - The Cyclops is a web browser with XSS detection feature, it is chromium-based xss detection that used to find the flows from a source to a sink.
  - Recon-ng - Recon-ng is a full-featured Web Reconnaissance framework written in Python. Recon-ng has a look and feel similar to the Metasploit Framework.
  - is-website-vulnerable - finds publicly known security vulnerabilities in a website's frontend JavaScript libraries.
  - Infection Monkey - A semi automatic pen testing tool for mapping/pen-testing networks. Simulates a human attacker.
  - PhpSploit - Full-featured C2 framework which silently persists on webserver via evil PHP oneliner. Built for stealth persistence, with many privilege-escalation & post-exploitation features.
  - Keyscope - Keyscope is an extensible key and secret validation for checking active secrets against multiple SaaS vendors built in Rust
  - PTF - The Penetration Testers Framework (PTF) is a way for modular support for up-to-date tools.
  - recon - a fast Rust based CLI that uses SQL to query over files, code, or malware with content classification and processing for security experts
  - ACSTIS - ACSTIS helps you to scan certain web applications for AngularJS Client-Side Template Injection (sometimes referred to as CSTI, sandbox escape or sandbox bypass). It supports scanning a single request but also crawling the entire web application for the AngularJS CSTI vulnerability.
  - padding-oracle-attacker - padding-oracle-attacker is a CLI tool and library to execute padding oracle attacks (which decrypts data encrypted in CBC mode) easily, with support for concurrent network requests and an elegant UI.
  - Scanmycode CE (Community Edition) - Code Scanning/SAST/Static Analysis/Linting using many tools/Scanners with One Report. Currently supports: PHP, Java, Scala, Python, Ruby, Javascript, GO, Secret Scanning, Dependency Confusion, Trojan Source, Open Source and Proprietary Checks (total ca. 1000 checks)
  - CakeFuzzer - The ultimate web application security testing tool for CakePHP-based web applications. CakeFuzzer employs a predefined set of attacks that are randomly modified before execution. Leveraging its deep understanding of the Cake PHP framework, Cake Fuzzer launches attacks on all potential application entry points.
  - OWASP Testing Checklist v4 - List of some controls to test during a web vulnerability assessment. Markdown version may be found [here](https://github.com/amocrenco/owasp-testing-checklist-v4-markdown/blob/master/README.md).
  - Trust Scan - URL security scanner with WHOIS, SSL, threat intelligence (URLhaus, PhishTank, Spamhaus), and 40+ scam/phishing pattern detection. Includes optional AI analysis via Ollama. ([Demo](https://aibuilds.net))
  - react2shell-scanner - Detect CVE-2025-55182 (React2Shell) RCE vulnerability in React Server Components. Scans React 19.x and Next.js projects for critical remote code execution flaws.
  - shai-hulud-scanner - Detect indicators of compromise from the Shai Hulud 2.0 npm supply chain attack that compromised 796+ packages. Performs comprehensive security checks for malicious files, hashes, and patterns.
- Web Application Firewall
  - BunkerWeb - BunkerWeb is a full-featured open-source web server with ModeSecurity WAF, HTTPS with transparent Let's Encrypt renewal, automatic ban of strange behaviors based on HTTP codes, bot and bad IPs block, connection limits, state-of-the-art security presets, Web UI and much more.
  - NAXSI - NAXSI is an open-source, high performance, low rules maintenance WAF for NGINX, NAXSI means Nginx Anti Xss & Sql Injection.
  - open-appsec - open-appsec is an open source machine-learning security engine that preemptively and automatically prevents threats against Web Application & APIs.
  - Curiefense - Curiefense adds a broad set of automated web security tools, including a WAF to Envoy Proxy.
  - sql_firewall
  - ironbee - IronBee is an open source project to build a universal web application security sensor. IronBee as a framework for developing a system for securing web applications - a framework for building a web application firewall (WAF).
- Runtime Application Self-Protection
  - OpenRASP - An open source RASP solution actively maintained by Baidu Inc. With context-aware detection algorithm the project achieved nearly no false positives. And less than 3% performance reduction is observed under heavy server load.
  - Sqreen - Sqreen is a Runtime Application Self-Protection (RASP) solution for software teams. An in-app agent instruments and monitors the app. Suspicious user activities are reported and attacks are blocked at runtime without code modification or traffic redirection.
Threat Intelligence
- Forensics
  - PhishStats - Phishing Statistics with search for IP, domain and website title.
  - Threat Jammer - REST API service that allows developers, security engineers, and other IT professionals to access curated threat intelligence data from a variety of sources.
  - Internet Storm Center - The ISC was created in 2001 following the successful detection, analysis, and widespread warning of the Li0n worm. Today, the ISC provides a free analysis and warning service to thousands of Internet users and organizations, and is actively working with Internet Service Providers to fight back against the most malicious attackers.
  - leakedin.com - The primary purpose of leakedin.com is to make visitors aware about the risks of loosing data. This blog just compiles samples of data lost or disclosed on sites like pastebin.com.
  - MISP - Open Source Threat Intelligence Platform - MISP threat sharing platform is a free and open source software helping information sharing of threat intelligence including cyber security indicators. A threat intelligence platform for gathering, sharing, storing and correlating Indicators of Compromise of targeted attacks, threat intelligence, financial fraud information, vulnerability information or even counter-terrorism information. The MISP project includes software, common libraries ([taxonomies](https://www.misp-project.org/taxonomies.html), [threat-actors and various malware](https://www.misp-project.org/galaxy.html)), an extensive data model to share new information using [objects](https://www.misp-project.org/objects.html) and default [feeds](https://www.misp-project.org/feeds/).
  - Tor Bulk Exit List - CollecTor, your friendly data-collecting service in the Tor network. CollecTor fetches data from various nodes and services in the public Tor network and makes it available to the world. If you're doing research on the Tor network, or if you're developing an application that uses Tor network data, this is your place to start. [TOR Node List](https://www.dan.me.uk/tornodes) / [DNS Blacklists](https://www.dan.me.uk/dnsbl) / [Tor Node List](http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/)
  - AutoShun - AutoShun is a Snort plugin that allows you to send your Snort IDS logs to a centralized server that will correlate attacks from your sensor logs with other snort sensors, honeypots, and mail filters from around the world.
  - Cyberowl - A daily updated summary of the most frequent types of security incidents currently being reported from different sources.
  - virustotal - VirusTotal, a subsidiary of Google, is a free online service that analyzes files and URLs enabling the identification of viruses, worms, trojans and other kinds of malicious content detected by antivirus engines and website scanners. At the same time, it may be used as a means to detect false positives, i.e. innocuous resources detected as malicious by one or more scanners.
  - FireEye OpenIOCs - FireEye Publicly Shared Indicators of Compromise (IOCs)
  - CIFv2 - CIF is a cyber threat intelligence management system. CIF allows you to combine known malicious threat information from many sources and use that information for identification (incident response), detection (IDS) and mitigation (null route).
  - leakedin.com - The primary purpose of leakedin.com is to make visitors aware about the risks of loosing data. This blog just compiles samples of data lost or disclosed on sites like pastebin.com.
  - Threat Jammer - REST API service that allows developers, security engineers, and other IT professionals to access curated threat intelligence data from a variety of sources.
  - AlienVault Open Threat Exchange - AlienVault Open Threat Exchange (OTX), to help you secure your networks from data loss, service disruption and system compromise caused by malicious IP addresses.
  - Cyware Threat Intelligence Feeds - Cyware’s Threat Intelligence feeds brings to you the valuable threat data from a wide range of open and trusted sources to deliver a consolidated stream of valuable and actionable threat intelligence. Our threat intel feeds are fully compatible with STIX 1.x and 2.0, giving you the latest information on malicious malware hashes, IPs and domains uncovered across the globe in real-time.
  - OpenVAS NVT Feed - The public feed of Network Vulnerability Tests (NVTs). It contains more than 35,000 NVTs (as of April 2014), growing on a daily basis. This feed is configured as the default for OpenVAS.
EBooks
- Online resources
  - Azure Security - A practical guide to the native security services of Microsoft Azure.
  - Spring Boot in Practice - Book that is a practical guide which presents dozens of relevant scenarios in a convenient problem-solution-discussion format.. (early access, published continuously, final release fall 2021)
  - Edge Computing Technology and Applications - A book about the business and technical foundation you need to create your edge computing strategy.
  - Self-Sovereign Identity - A book about how SSI empowers us to receive digitally-signed credentials, store them in private wallets, and securely prove our online identities. (early access, published continuously, final release fall 2021)
  - Docker Security - Quick Reference: For DevOps Engineers - A book on understanding the Docker security defaults, how to improve them (theory and practical), along with many tools and techniques.
  - Real World Cryptography - This early-access book teaches you applied cryptographic techniques to understand and apply security at every level of your systems and applications.
  - Secret Key Cryptography - A book about cryptographic techniques and Secret Key methods. (early access, published continuously, final release Summer 2022)
  - How to Hack Like a Legend - A hacker’s tale breaking into a secretive offshore company, Sparc Flow, 2018
  - The Art of Network Penetration Testing - Book that is a hands-on guide to running your own penetration test on an enterprise network. (early access, published continuously, final release December 2020)
  - Data Privacy - A book that teaches you to implement technical privacy solutions and tools at scale. (early access, published continuously, final release January 2022)
  - The Security Engineer Handbook - A short read that discusses the dos and dont's of working in a security team, and the many tricks and tips that can help you in your day-to-day as a security engineer.
  - Cyber Threat Hunting - Practical guide to cyber threat hunting.
  - Spring Security in Action, Second Edition - A book about designing and developing Spring applications that are secure right from the start.
  - Node.js Secure Coding: Prevention and Exploitation of Path Traversal Vulnerabilities - Master secure coding in Node.js with real-world vulnerable dependencies and experience firsthand secure coding techniques against Path Traversal vulnerabilities.
  - Holistic Info-Sec for Web Developers - Free and downloadable book series with very broad and deep coverage of what Web Developers and DevOps Engineers need to know in order to create robust, reliable, maintainable and secure software, networks and other, that are delivered continuously, on time, with no nasty surprises
  - How to Hack Like a Pornstar - A step by step process for breaking into a BANK, Sparc Flow, 2017
  - How to Investigate Like a Rockstar - Live a real crisis to master the secrets of forensic analysis, Sparc Flow, 2017
  - Grokking Web Application Security - A book about building web apps that are ready for and resilient to any attack.
  - Node.js Secure Coding: Defending Against Command Injection Vulnerabilities - Learn secure coding conventions in Node.js by executing command injection attacks on real-world npm packages and analyzing vulnerable code.
  - Edge Computing Technology and Applications - A book about the business and technical foundation you need to create your edge computing strategy.
  - How to Hack Like a Legend - A hacker’s tale breaking into a secretive offshore company, Sparc Flow, 2018
Operating Systems
- Privacy & Security
  - Qubes OS - Qubes OS is a free and open-source security-oriented operating system meant for single-user desktop computing.
- Online resources
  - Security related Operating Systems @ Rawsec - Complete list of security related operating systems
  - Best Linux Penetration Testing Distributions @ CyberPunk - Description of main penetration testing distributions
  - Hardening Windows 10 - Guide for hardening Windows 10
Datastores
- Online resources
  - passbolt - The password manager your team was waiting for. Free, open source, extensible, based on OpenPGP.
  - databunker - Databunker is an address book on steroids for storing personal data. GDPR and encryption are out of the box.
  - blackbox - Safely store secrets in a VCS repo using GPG
  - passpie - Multiplatform command-line password manager
  - acra - Database security suite: proxy for data protection with transparent "on the fly" data encryption, data masking and tokenization, SQL firewall (SQL injections prevention), intrusion detection system.
  - LunaSec - Database for PII with automatic encryption/tokenization, sandboxed components for handling data, and centralized authorization controls.
  - aws-vault - Store AWS credentials in the OSX Keychain or an encrypted file
  - chamber - Store secrets using AWS KMS and SSM Parameter Store
  - redoctober - Server for two-man rule style file encryption and decryption.
  - credstash - Store secrets using AWS KMS and DynamoDB
  - confidant - Stores secrets in AWS DynamoDB, encrypted at rest and integrates with IAM
  - Sops - An editor of encrypted files that supports YAML, JSON and BINARY formats and encrypts with AWS KMS and PGP.
  - Vault - An encrypted datastore secure enough to hold environment and application secrets.
  - dotgpg - A tool for backing up and versioning your production secrets or shared passwords securely and easily.
Social Engineering
- Forensics
  - Gophish - An Open-Source Phishing Framework.
Exploits & Payloads
- Development
  - PayloadsAllTheThings - A list of useful payloads and bypass for Web Application Security and Pentest/CTF
DevOps
- Development
  - Trivy - A simple and comprehensive vulnerability scanner for containers and other artifacts, suitable for CI.
  - Selefra - An open-source policy-as-code software that provides analytics for multi-cloud and SaaS.
  - Preflight - helps you verify scripts and executables to mitigate supply chain attacks in your CI and other systems.
  - ansible-os-hardening - Ansible role for OS hardening
  - Teller - a secrets management tool for devops and developers - manage secrets across multiple vaults and keystores from a single place.
  - cve-ape - A non-intrusive CVE scanner for embedding in test and CI environments that can scan package lists and individual packages for existing CVEs via locally stored CVE database. Can also be used as an offline CVE scanner for e.g. OT/ICS.
Fraud prevention
- Online resources
  - FingerprintJS - Identifies browser and hybrid mobile application users even when they purge data storage. Allows you to detect account takeovers, account sharing and repeated malicious activity.
Blue Team Infrastructure Deployment
- Development
  - MutableSecurity - CLI program for automating the setup, configuration, and use of cybersecurity solutions.
Big Data
- Development
  - Apache Spot (incubating) - Apache Spot is open source software for leveraging insights from flow and packet analysis.
  - binarypig - Scalable Binary Data Extraction in Hadoop. Malware Processing and Analytics over Pig, Exploration through Django, Twitter Bootstrap, and Elasticsearch.
  - hadoop-pcap - Hadoop library to read packet capture (PCAP) files.
  - OpenSOC - OpenSOC integrates a variety of open source big data technologies in order to offer a centralized tool for security monitoring and analysis.
Red Team Infrastructure Deployment
- Development
  - Redcloud - A automated Red Team Infrastructure deployement using Docker.
  - Axiom - Axiom is a dynamic infrastructure framework to efficiently work with multi-cloud environments, build and deploy repeatable infrastructure focussed on offensive and defensive security.
Terminal
- Development
  - shellfirm - It is a handy utility to help avoid running dangerous commands with an extra approval step. You will immediately get a small prompt challenge that will double verify your action when risky patterns are detected.
  - shellclear - It helps you to Secure your shell history commands by finding sensitive commands in your all history commands and allowing you to clean them.

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