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View 91 business solutionsBrowse free open source Cybersecurity tools and projects for Linux below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Cybersecurity tools by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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Ghidra
Ghidra is a software reverse engineering (SRE) framework
Ghidra is a free and open-source reverse engineering framework developed by the NSA for analyzing compiled software. It supports a wide array of instruction sets and executable formats, offering features such as decompilation, disassembly, scripting, and interactive graphing. Designed for security researchers and analysts, Ghidra provides a robust environment for understanding malware, auditing code, and performing software forensics. It includes both GUI-based and headless analysis modes. -
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Greenplum Database
Massive parallel data platform for analytics, machine learning and AI
Rapidly create and deploy models for complex applications in cybersecurity, predictive maintenance, risk management, fraud detection, and many other areas. With its unique cost-based query optimizer designed for large-scale data workloads, Greenplum scales interactive and batch-mode analytics to large datasets in the petabytes without degrading query performance and throughput. Based on PostgreSQL, Greenplum provides you with more control over the software you deploy, reducing vendor lock-in, and allowing open influence on product direction. Greenplum reduces data silos by providing you with a single, scale-out environment for converging analytic and operational workloads, like streaming ingestion. All major Greenplum contributions are part of the Greenplum Database project and share the same database core, including the MPP architecture, analytical interfaces, and security capabilities. -
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cyborghawk v1.1
Latest-v1.1 of The World's most advanced pen testing distribution ever
updated version of The most advanced, powerful and yet beautiful penetration testing distribution ever created.Lined up with ultimate collection of tools for pro Ethical Hackers and Cyber Security Experts. Simplify security in your IT infrastructure with Cyborg. Its real strength comes from the understanding that a tester requires a strong and efficient system,that benefits from a strong selection of tools, integrated with a stable linux environment. -
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SafeLine
Serve as a reverse proxy to protect your web services from attacks
SafeLine is a self-hosted WAF(Web Application Firewall) to protect your web apps from attacks and exploits. A web application firewall helps protect web apps by filtering and monitoring HTTP traffic between a web application and the Internet. It typically protects web apps from attacks such as SQL injection, XSS, code injection, os command injection, CRLF injection, LDAP injection, XPath injection, RCE, XXE, SSRF, path traversal, backdoor, brute force, HTTP-flood, bot abuse, among others. By deploying a WAF in front of a web application, a shield is placed between the web application and the Internet. While a proxy server protects a client machine’s identity by using an intermediary, a WAF is a type of reverse-proxy, protecting the server from exposure by having clients pass through the WAF before reaching the server. A WAF protects your web apps by filtering, monitoring, and blocking any malicious HTTP/S traffic traveling to the web application. -
Atera - The depth of a full-stack IT platform, with the power of AI.Atera prioritizes security and compliance through robust protections that align with industry standards. Our AI-driven features were built on responsible AI principles and empower IT teams to work efficiently while maintaining trust and compliance.
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HydraPWK GNU/Linux
HydraPWK GNU/Linux Official SourceForge Pages.
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Watcher
Open Source Cybersecurity Threat Hunting Platform
Watcher is a file integrity monitoring tool that detects unauthorized changes to files, helping organizations maintain compliance and security. -
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BerserkArch
A bleeding-edge, security-centric Arch-based Linux distribution.
BerserkArch is a security-focused, performance-tuned Linux operating system (OS) based on Arch Linux, designed for developers, hackers, and technical users. A bleeding-edge, security-centric Arch-based Linux distribution crafted for hackers, developers, and nerds alike. Following the Arch Linux philosophy, it is designed to be highly customizable, allowing users to build their environment with only the components they need, rather than having a lot of pre-installed software like some other security distributions (e.g., Kali Linux). As an Arch-based distribution, it benefits from the rolling release model, providing users with the latest software versions and kernel updates. BerserkArch is a dist "designed to make you powerful" for specific use cases like reverse-engineering binaries and automating exploits, rather than being an easy-to-use distribution for general beginners. -
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GUN
Cybersecurity protocol for syncing decentralized graph data
GUN is a small, easy, and fast data sync and storage system that runs everywhere JavaScript does. The aim of GUN is to let you focus on the data that needs to be stored, loaded, and shared in your app without worrying about servers, network calls, databases, or tracking offline changes or concurrency conflicts. This lets you build cool apps fast. When a browser peer asks for data, it'll merge the reply with its own data using a CRDT, then cache the result. GUN is fully decentralized (peer-to-peer or multi-master), meaning that changes are not controlled by a centralized server. A server can be just another peer in the network, one that may have more reliable resources than a browser. You save data on one machine, and it will sync it to other peers without needing a complex consensus protocol. It just works. GUN can be used in both browsers and servers. We have made it easy to install in many different environments. -
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VPLE (Linux) Vulnerable Pentesting Lab Environment VPLE is an Intentionally Vulnerable Linux Virtual Machine. This VM can be used to conduct security training, test security tools, and practice common penetration testing Labs. In VPLE bunch of labs are Available. NOTE:- "Only run in VMWare Pls Don’t run in VirtualBox" Will also run on the ProxMox server to understand how to do it pls refer to the doc in the zip named "Cybersecurity Lab Deployment on Proxmox" The default login and password is administrator: password. List Of All Labs in one VM:- 1. Web-DVWA 2. Mutillidae 3. Webgoat 4. Bwapp 5. Juice-shop 6. Security-ninjas 7. WordPress We are adding more labs in few days
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Grafana: The open and composable observability platformGrafana is the open source analytics & monitoring solution for every database.
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cyborg hawk v 1.0
The World's most advanced penetration testing distribution ever
The most advanced, powerful and yet beautiful penetration testing distribution ever created.Lined up with ultimate collection of tools for pro Ethical Hackers and Cyber Security Experts. Simplify security in your IT infrastructure with Cyborg. Its real strength comes from the understanding that a tester requires a strong and efficient system,that benefits from a strong selection of tools, integrated with a stable linux environment. -
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cardionet
A beautiful, modern Terminal User Interface (TUI) for nmap
CardioNet simplifies network scanning by providing an intuitive graphical interface for nmap, making it accessible to both beginners and advanced users. Build complex scanning commands visually, execute them in real-time, and export results in multiple formats. -
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ODS3 Virtual Machine Challenge
Virtual Machine Image To Test Penetration Skills
The ODS3 Virtual Machine Challenge are downloadable images that can be run as VMWare or VirtualBox instances. The Idea behind the challenge is to test and exercise web application penetration testing in a controlled environment. These images are great for cyber security students, penetration testers and hobbyist. Care should be taken if installed on an Internet access host as the application are purposely vulnerable to attack and exploitation. -
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A professional PE (Portable Executable) analysis and modification tool for Windows executables and DLLs.
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Network Enumeration Tool
Network Enumeration Tool for Host Exploration and Recon
N-ETHER (Network Enumeration Tool for Host Exploration and Reconnaissance) is a robust and highly automated Python script designed to streamline the critical initial phases of network security auditing and penetration testing. It’s core purpose is to perform fast, comprehensive, and consistent host and port discovery across single targets or large lists of IP addresses. N-ETHER functions as an intelligent, opinionated wrapper around the powerful nmap tool, bundling best-practice scanning techniques—including service versioning, NSE scripting, and intelligent port selection—into a single, easy-to-use utility. This significantly reduces auditor workload and potential for human error compared to manually executing multiple complex nmap commands. Read the README!!! -
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BunkerWeb
Next-generation and open-source Web Application Firewall (WAF).
Being a full-featured web server (based on NGINX under the hood), it will protect your web services to make them "secure by default". BunkerWeb integrates seamlessly into your existing environments (Linux, Docker, Swarm, Kubernetes, …) and is fully configurable (don't panic, there is an awesome web UI if you don't like the CLI) to meet your own use-cases . In other words, cybersecurity is no more a hassle. -
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Java Vulnerable Lab - Pentesting Lab
a deliberately vulnerable Web application
This is Vulnerable Web Application developed for course by Cyber Security and Privacy Foundation (www.cysecurity.org) for Java programmers The full course on Hacking and Securing Web Java Programs is available in https://www.udemy.com/hacking-securing-java-web-programming/ WAR file: ---------- https://sourceforge.net/projects/javavulnerablelab/files/latest/JavaVulnerableLab.war/download Virtualbox VM file: -------------------------- http://sourceforge.net/projects/javavulnerablelab/files/v0.1/JavaVulnerableLab.ova/download Credentials for the VM: ------------------------ Username: root Password: cspf Stand-alone file: (Run the Jar file directly) -------------- http://sourceforge.net/projects/javavulnerablelab/files/v0.2/JavaVulnerableLab.jar/download -
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tirreno
Open-source security framework for devs and product teams
tirreno is an open-source security framework. tirreno [tir.ˈrɛ.no] helps understand, monitor, and protect your product from threats, fraud, and abuse. While classic cybersecurity focuses on infrastructure and network perimeter, most breaches occur through compromised accounts and application logic abuse that bypasses firewalls, SIEM, WAFs, and other defenses. tirreno detects threats where they actually happen: inside your product. tirreno is a few-dependency, "low-tech" PHP/PostgreSQL application. After a straightforward five-minute installation, you can ingest events through API calls and immediately access a real-time threat dashboard. -
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HardenLinux
Shell Script to Harden Default Values in Linux Distributions
HardenLinux is a shell script designed to harden default values in Linux distributions and assist with malware removal. With root permissions, it can perform many tasks listed in a menu. As a script, HardenLinux is highly documented and easy to comprehend. -
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MalbianLinux
GNU/Linux Distribution for Malware Analysis and Reverse Engineering.
Malbian is a Light-weight Debian Based GNU/Linux Distribution for Malware Analysis and Reverse Engineering designed to aid the user in both Static and Dynamic analysis of malware samples. 100% Free to use and distribute. About: https://github.com/MalbianLinux Installation Guide in: https://github.com/MalbianLinux/Malbian-ISOs/ -
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justniffer is a TCP sniffer. It reassembles and reorders packets and displays the tcp flow in a customizable way. It can log network traffic in web server log format. It can also log network services performances (e.g. web server response times) and extract http content (images, html, scripts, etc)
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BTS Pentesting Lab
BTS Pentesting Lab - a deliberately vulnerable Web application
BTS PenTesting Lab is an open source vulnerable web application, created by Cyber Security & Privacy Foundation (www.cysecurity.org). It can be used to learn about many different types of web application vulnerabilities. Currently, the app contains the following types of vulnerabilities: *SQL Injection *XSS(includes Flash Based xss) *CSRF *Clickjacking *SSRF *File Inclusion * Code Execution *Insecure Direct Object Reference *Unrestricted File Upload vulnerability *Open URL Redirection *Server Side Includes(SSI) Injection and more... Java version of this application can be found here: https://sourceforge.net/p/javavulnerablelab/ -
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BypassHash
This tool downloads an executable and bypasses hash-based virus checks
This tool downloads an executable, ELF (Linux) and PE (Windows), modify metadata to bypasses hash-based virus checks and protect against identification with metadata (like rich headers, timestamps, ...). -
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Secure VPC Network Generator
Secure VPC Network Generator
Deploys a secure VPC on AWS with public/private subnets using Terraform. This tool provides a calculator and generator for AWS VPC Terraform configurations. It allows you to quickly scaffold a secure VPC with multiple subnets. Quick Start To use this tool, run the generator: bash # Generate a VPC with 3 subnets python lab_runner.py vpc-gen --cidr 10.10.0.0/16 --subnets 3 --output my_vpc.tf -
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ICS Sensor Sim Lab
ICS Sensor Traffic Simulator
This tool simulates network traffic typical of an Industrial Control System (ICS) environment. It generates synthetic Modbus/TCP packets to help test monitoring and intrusion detection systems. Quick Start To use this tool, run the simulator: bash # Run for 30 seconds and save to traffic.log python lab_runner.py ics-sim --duration 30 --output traffic.log -
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Incident Response Automation
Incident Response Automation Tool
This tool simulates automated defensive actions, such as blocking an IP address on a firewall, in response to detected threats. Quick Start To use this tool, run the responder: # Block an IP address python lab_runner.py incident-response --ip 10.10.10.xxx --reason "Malicious Activity Detected"
