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ArpON
ARP handler inspection
ArpON (ARP handler inspection) is a Host-based solution that make the ARP standardized protocol secure in order to avoid the Man In The Middle (MITM) attack through the ARP spoofing, ARP cache poisoning or ARP poison routing attack. -
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Tengine
A distribution of Nginx with some advanced features
Tengine is a web server originated by Taobao, the largest e-commerce website in Asia. It is based on the Nginx HTTP server and has many advanced features. Tengine has proven to be very stable and efficient on some of the top 100 websites in the world, including taobao.com and tmall.com. Tengine has been an open source project since December 2011. It is being actively developed by the Tengine team, whose core members are from Taobao, Sogou and other Internet companies. Tengine is a community effort and everyone is encouraged to get involved. All features of nginx-1.18.0 are inherited, i.e., it is 100% compatible with nginx. Support the CONNECT HTTP method for forward proxy. Support asynchronous OpenSSL, using hardware such as QAT for HTTPS acceleration. Enhanced operations monitoring, such as asynchronous log & rollback, DNS caching, memory usage, etc. Support server_name in Stream module. More load balancing methods, e.g., consistent hashing, and session persistence. -
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fping
High performance ping tool
fping is a program to send ICMP echo probes to network hosts, similar to ping, but much better performing when pinging multiple hosts. fping has a very long history: Roland Schemers did publish a first version of it in 1992 and it has established itself since then as a standard tool for network diagnostics and statistics. There was no official fping release from 2002 until end of 2011. Various patches existed, but were never integrated "upstream". Also, the official maintainer didn't answer emails, so I decided to just step up and take over maintenanceship.To mark this change of maintenance, and avoid confusion, I decided to call it version 3. Besides a new maintainer, fping now also features a completely rewritten main loop implementation which improves performance significantly. The run time is now close to the theoretical time required to send and receive the pings under the specified parameters. -
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s-tui
Terminal-based CPU stress and monitoring utility
s-tui (Stress Terminal UI) is a terminal-based performance monitoring and stress-testing tool focused specifically on CPU behavior analysis in Linux and other UNIX-like systems. It provides real-time graphical visualization of CPU temperature, frequency, power consumption, and utilization directly within a text-based interface, eliminating the need for a graphical desktop environment. The utility is particularly useful for diagnosing thermal throttling, validating cooling solutions, and evaluating system stability under heavy load conditions. In addition to passive monitoring, s-tui can integrate with external stress tools to actively push the CPU to its limits while simultaneously displaying performance metrics. The software is lightweight, scriptable, and well suited for remote environments such as SSH sessions or small devices like Raspberry Pi. -
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CacheGuard Gateway
Free UTM appliance: firewall, VPN, WAF and antivirus in one ISO.
Securing your network should not require an enterprise budget. CacheGuard is a free open-source network security appliance for startups and growing businesses that need serious protection without the complexity. Install CacheGuard-OS on any x86 machine or VM and get a complete security gateway in under an hour. No plug-ins, no compatibility issues. Everything works out of the box. CacheGuard-OS is not an app, it IS the OS. A fully custom network appliance operating system built from scratch over 20 years, now fully open source. One ISO includes: firewall, VPN, web antivirus, URL filtering, SSL inspection, WAF, reverse proxy, load balancer and QoS. Free for any number of users. Optional paid support available. Source code: https://github.com/cacheguard/CacheGuard-OS Website: https://www.cacheguard.com/ -
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Prometheus
Open source monitoring system and time series database
Prometheus is a leading open source systems and service monitoring solution. It works by collecting metrics from configured targets at given intervals, evaluating rule expressions, and then displaying the results. It can also signal an alert if a condition is observed to be true. What sets Prometheus apart from other monitoring systems is its highly dimensional data model, powerful query language, autonomous single server nodes, among many other distinguishing features. It also offers several client libraries for easy instrumentation of services, as well as many integration options. -
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Arkime
A full packet capturing, indexing, and database system
Arkime is an open source, large-scale, full packet capturing, indexing, and database system designed to augment existing security infrastructure by storing and indexing network traffic in standard PCAP format. It offers full network visibility, facilitating the swift identification and resolution of security and network issues. Security teams gain access to the necessary network visibility data essential for responding to and investigating incidents to expose the full attack scope. Designed to be deployed across multiple clustered systems, Arkime provides the ability to scale to hundreds of gigabits per second. It allows security analysts to respond, reconstruct, investigate, and confirm information about the threats within your network, enabling appropriate responses quickly and precisely. As an open-source platform, Arkime provides users with the benefits of transparency, cost-effectiveness, flexibility, and community support. -
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Osquery
SQL operating system instrumentation and monitoring framework
Osquery is an operating system instrumentation framework for Windows, OS X (macOS), Linux, and FreeBSD. The tools make low-level operating system analytics and monitoring both performant and intuitive. Osquery exposes an operating system as a high-performance relational database. This allows you to write SQL queries to explore operating system data. With osquery, SQL tables represent abstract concepts such as running processes, loaded kernel modules, open network connections, browser plugins, hardware events or file hashes.Osquery queries your devices like a database. Osquery uses basic SQL commands to leverage a relational data-model to describe a device. Frequently, attackers will leave a malicious process running but delete the original binary on disk. This query returns any process whose original binary has been deleted, which could be an indicator of a suspicious process. -
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AirSnort is a wireless LAN (WLAN) tool which cracks encryption keys on 802.11b WEP networks. AirSnort operates by passively monitoring transmissions, computing the encryption key when enough packets have been gathered.
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Xymon Systems and Network Monitor
Xymon monitors your hosts, your network services, and everything else.
Xymon is a system for monitoring of hosts and networks, inspired by the Big Brother system. It provides real-time monitoring, an easy web-interface, historical data, availability reports and performance graphs. -
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Bit-Twist (Packet generator/editor)
Packet generator and packet editor for Windows, Linux, BSD, and macOS
Supported systems: Windows, Linux, BSD, and macOS. Bit-Twist is a simple yet powerful libpcap-based Ethernet packet generator and packet editor. It is designed to complement tcpdump, which by itself has done a great job at capturing network traffic. With Bit-Twist, you can now regenerate your captured traffic onto a live network! Packets are generated from tcpdump trace file (.pcap file). Bit-Twist comes with a comprehensive trace file editor to allow you to change the contents of a trace file. Bit-Twist is designed for exceptional speed, allowing you to edit 10 million packets in under 3 seconds and send them over a live network at throughput levels that match your NIC's maximum line rate, up to 10 Gbps. Bit-Twist is ideal for simulating network traffic and scenarios, testing firewalls, IDS, IPS, routers, switches, load balancers, and other network equipment, as well as troubleshooting various network issues. https://bittwist.sourceforge.io / ayeowch@gmail.com -
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Those who have read past the "Malware" warning can be assured there is absolutely no malware in this OS or in the download. This warning comes from the "netcat" binary included in the download as a DOS time client. Unfortunately netcat has code that is flagged as malware. FREESCO, a NAT/firewall router/server based on Linux and runs on a single 1.44MB floppy. Freesco is very powerful and versatile and can connect multiple home or small office networks to most types of Internet connections including dialup.
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Brook
Brook is a cross-platform strong encryption and not detectable proxy
Brook is a cross-platform strong encryption and not detectable proxy. Brook's goal is to keep it simple, stupid and not detectable. You can run commands after entering the command-line interface. Usually, everyone uses the command line interface on Linux servers. Of course, Linux also has desktops that can also run GUI. Of course, macOS and Windows also have command-line interfaces, but you may not use them frequently. Usually, the applications opened by double-clicking/clicking on macOS/Windows/iOS/Android are all GUIs. Usually, if you use Brook, you will need a combination of Server and Client, Of course Brook CLI also has many other independent functions. The Brook CLI file is an independent command file, it can be said that there is no concept of installation, just download this file to your computer, run it after granting it executable permissions in the command line interface. -
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LEDE
Lean's LEDE source
LEDE by coolsnowwolf is a fork of OpenWrt that provides a highly optimized and customizable firmware source for routers and embedded devices. It emphasizes security (no proprietary backdoors), supports a vast range of hardware—including Rockchip and GL.iNet devices—and features frequent updates and community contributions. -
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Scapy
Scapy is a Python-based interactive packet manipulation program
Scapy is a powerful Python-based interactive packet manipulation program and library. It is able to forge or decode packets of a wide number of protocols, send them on the wire, capture them, store or read them using pcap files, match requests and replies, and much more. It is designed to allow fast packet prototyping by using default values that work. It can easily handle most classical tasks like scanning, tracerouting, probing, unit tests, attacks or network discovery (it can replace hping, 85% of nmap, arpspoof, arp-sk, arping, tcpdump, wireshark, p0f, etc.). It also performs very well at a lot of other specific tasks that most other tools can't handle, like sending invalid frames, injecting your own 802.11 frames, combining techniques (VLAN hopping+ARP cache poisoning, VoIP decoding on WEP protected channel, ...), etc. Scapy supports Python 2.7 and Python 3 (3.4 to 3.7). It's intended to be cross platform, and runs on many different platforms (Linux, OSX, *BSD, and Window -
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EtherApe is a graphical network monitor modeled after etherman. Featuring Ethernet, IP, TCP, FDDI, Token Ring and wireless modes, it displays network activity graphically. Hosts and links change in size with traffic. Color coded protocols display.
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FurMark
GPU stress test OpenGL and Vulkan graphics benchmark Windows/Linux
FurMark is an intensive benchmarking tool designed to evaluate the performance of graphics cards using fur rendering algorithms. This tool is particularly effective in generating high workloads that can significantly increase the temperature of the GPU, making it a useful utility for testing the stability and stress tolerance of graphics cards. By simulating demanding rendering tasks, FurMark serves as a comprehensive test for assessing the robustness and thermal performance of GPUs under extreme conditions. FurMark from Geeks3D is a free OpenGL benchmark tool for Windows that can also be used to check the stability of a graphics card thanks to a built-in stress test. FurMark rendering is designed to overheat the GPU making it a viral-like stability and stress test tool (also called GPU burner) for the graphics card. -
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NSClient++ is a windows service that allows performance metrics to be gathered by Nagios (and possibly other monitoring tools). It is an attempt to create a NSClient and NRPE compatible but yet extendable performance service for windows.
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Endian Firewall Community (EFW) is a "turn-key" linux security distribution that makes your system a full featured security appliance with Unified Threat Management (UTM) functionalities. The software has been designed for the best usability: very easy to install, use and manage and still greatly flexible. The feature suite includes stateful packet inspection firewall, application-level proxies for various protocols (HTTP, FTP, POP3, SMTP) with antivirus support, virus and spam-filtering for email traffic (POP and SMTP), content filtering of Web traffic and a "hassle free" VPN solution (based on both OpenVPN and IPsec).
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Prometheus SNMP Exporter
SNMP Exporter for Prometheus
This exporter is the recommended way to expose SNMP data in a format that Prometheus can ingest. To simply get started, it's recommended to use the if_mib module with switches, access points, or routers using the public_v2 auth module, which should be a read-only access community on the target device. Note, that community strings in SNMP are not considered secrets, as they are sent unencrypted in SNMP v1 and v2c. For secure access, SNMP v3 is required. -
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Zeek
Zeek is a powerful network analysis framework
Zeek has a long history in the open source and digital security worlds. Vern Paxson began developing the project in the 1990s under the name “Bro” as a means to understand what was happening on his university and national laboratory networks. Vern and the project’s leadership team renamed Bro to Zeek in late 2018 to celebrate its expansion and continued development. Zeek is not an active security device, like a firewall or intrusion prevention system. Rather, Zeek sits on a “sensor,” a hardware, software, virtual, or cloud platform that quietly and unobtrusively observes network traffic. Zeek interprets what it sees and creates compact, high-fidelity transaction logs, file content, and fully customized output, suitable for manual review on disk or in a more analyst-friendly tool like a security and information event management (SIEM) system. -
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OpenAS2
AS2 1.1 server implementation in Java
OpenAS2 is a java-based implementation of the EDIINT AS2 standard. It is intended to be used as a server. It is extremely configurable and supports a wide variety of signing and encryption algorithms. Supports very high traffic volume allowing parallel processing of files per partner. SUPPORT: Please use the Github issues and Discussions channels here: https://github.com/OpenAS2/OpenAs2App/ Requirements: - Java 11 or newer (tested with the LTS versions of Java up to 21) - Any OS that runs Java Planned enhancements in the next major release: - User interace configuration GUI - Certificate Exchange Management IMPORTANT: Java 8 is no longer supported. -
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OpenNMS
A Java based fault and performance management system
An Enterprise-Grade Network Management Application Platform that is 100% Free and Open Source Software. -
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Grafana Agent
Vendor-neutral programmable observability pipelines
Grafana Agent is an OpenTelemetry Collector distribution with a configuration inspired by Terraform. It is designed to be flexible, performant, and compatible with multiple ecosystems such as Prometheus and OpenTelemetry. Grafana Agent is based on components. Components are wired together to form programmable observability pipelines for telemetry collection, processing, and delivery.
