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678stars+9in 24h
Clouds-Against-Humanity preview

Learn cloud security by building it! An open-source homelab teaching Zero Trust, DevSecOps, IaC, and cloud architecture from the ground up.

SecurityPythonApache-2.0GitHub

MacSai

iliyami

2,099stars+9in 24h
MacSai preview

Mac Sai: the open-source Mac cleaner, optimizer, and malware scanner. A free, Apple-notarized alternative to CleanMyMac, built with Swift 6 and SwiftUI.

  • 🧹 Cleanup Smart Scan (one click) System Junk (16+ categories) Mail Attachments Trash Bins Project Junk (build folders) Disk Hogs (Docker, simulators) Clean History (one-click Restore) - 🛡️ Protection Malware Removal Privacy (browsers) Browser Extensions Saved Wi-Fi Permissions Overview - ⚡ Performance Optimization (login items) Maintenance (system tasks)
SecuritySwiftBSD-3-ClauseGitHub

Crest

pauljoda

1,118stars+9in 24h
Crest preview

An open source browser for Mac, iPhone, and iPad.

  • A sidebar with structure. Pins for everyday sites, saved tabs with a home URL, nested folders for projects, and current tabs for what you are doing now. Select tabs, Split Views, and folders together to organize them in one step.
  • Split View. Keep two to four live pages in a group. Resize columns on Mac and iPad; move through focused cards on iPhone.
SecuritySwiftMPL-2.0GitHub

radare2

radareorg

25,342stars+9in 24h
radare2 preview

UNIX-like reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset

redamon

samugit83

3,311stars+9in 24h
redamon preview

Open-source, self-hosted AI penetration testing framework: maps your attack surface into a graph, autonomously exploits it from a Kali sandbox with human approval gates, and opens PRs that fix what it finds. MCP both ways: plug in any MCP server as a tool, or drive RedAmon from Claude Code or your own agent.

ungoogled-chromium

ungoogled-software

28,183stars+9in 24h

Google Chromium, sans integration with Google

  • This includes disabling Safe Browsing. Consult the FAQ for the rationale.
  • Strip binaries from the source code (known as binary pruning; see docs/design.md for details)
SecurityPythonBSD-3-ClauseGitHub

systeminformer

winsiderss

16,427stars+9in 24h
systeminformer preview

A free, powerful, multi-purpose tool that helps you monitor system resources, debug software and detect malware. Brought to you by Winsider Seminars & Solutions, Inc. @ https://windows-internals.com

  • A detailed overview of system activity with highlighting.
  • Graphs and statistics allow you quickly to track down resource hogs and runaway processes.

RustScan

bee-san

20,680stars+8in 24h
RustScan preview

🤖 The Modern Port Scanner 🤖

  • Scans all 65k ports in 3 seconds.
  • Full scripting engine support. Automatically pipe results into Nmap, or use our scripts (or write your own) to do whatever you want.
SecurityRustGPL-3.0GitHub

skill-scanner

cisco-ai-defense

2,697stars+8in 24h

Security Scanner for Agent Skills

  • Multi-Engine Detection - Static analysis, behavioral dataflow, LLM semantic analysis, and cloud-based scanning for layered, best-effort coverage
  • Typed CEL Decisions - The core scanner uses the official cel-go v0.32.0 runtime to correlate bounded facts after deterministic detection and before optional LLM analysis

lynis

CISOfy

16,649stars+8in 24h

Lynis - Security auditing tool for Linux, macOS, and UNIX-based systems. Assists with compliance testing (HIPAA/ISO27001/PCI DSS) and system hardening. Agentless, and installation optional.

SecurityShellGPL-3.0GitHub

fail2ban

fail2ban

18,966stars+8in 24h

Daemon to ban hosts that cause multiple authentication errors

kata-containers

kata-containers

9,091stars+8in 24h

Kata Containers is an open source project and community working to build a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that feel and perform like containers, but provide the workload isolation and security advantages of VMs. https://katacontainers.io/

SecurityRustApache-2.0GitHub

web-check

lissy93

35,394stars+8in 24h
web-check preview

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

SecurityTypeScriptMITGitHub

nuclei-templates

projectdiscovery

13,296stars+8in 24h

Community curated list of templates for the nuclei engine to find security vulnerabilities.

SecurityJavaScriptMITGitHub

wBlock

0xCUB3

3,200stars+7in 24h
wBlock preview

Free, open-source Safari ad blocker for macOS, iOS, iPadOS and visionOS. Up to 750,000 rules, custom filter lists, userscripts and userstyles. No subscription.

SecuritySwiftGPL-3.0GitHub

Atlas

Atlas-OS

22,035stars+7in 24h
Atlas preview

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

  • Windows Defender & SmartScreen
  • Windows Update and automatic updates
SecurityPowerShellGPL-3.0GitHub

crowdsec

crowdsecurity

15,489stars+7in 24h
crowdsec preview

Open-source IDS/IPS, WAF and bot detection for Linux, Windows, Docker and Kubernetes, with a crowdsourced blocklist of malicious IPs.

DVWA

digininja

13,982stars+7in 24h
DVWA preview

Damn Vulnerable Web Application (DVWA)

SecurityPHPGPL-3.0GitHub

donutbrowser

donutbrowser

4,237stars+7in 24h
donutbrowser preview

The Most Private Anti-Detect Browser 🍩

  • Unlimited browser profiles: each fully isolated with its own fingerprint, cookies, extensions, and data
  • Anti-detect Chromium engine: powered by Wayfern, a privacy-focused Chromium fork whose fingerprint spoofing is not detected by Cloudflare, reCaptcha v3, or other browser fingerprinting and anti-bot services
SecurityRustAGPL-3.0GitHub

homarr

homarr-labs

5,297stars+7in 24h
homarr preview

A modern and easy to use dashboard. 80+ integrations. 20K+ icons built in. Authentication out of the box. No YAML, drag and drop configuration.

SecurityTypeScriptApache-2.0GitHub