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General Security

Security review, vulnerability scanning, threat modeling, and defensive engineering tools.

45 Repositories Cybersecurity Updated Jul 16
Topic guide

How to use this General Security index

General Security repositories in Skill Atlas are selected from popular GitHub projects and organized to help developers compare tools, patterns, and implementation examples. Use this page as a starting point before opening individual repositories for docs, issues, examples, and license details.

When to use this category

  • Find established open source projects related to general security.
  • Compare repository popularity, language, tags, and practical use cases.
  • Build a shortlist before deeper technical evaluation.
  • Discover adjacent categories through related tags and subcategories.

How to choose

  • Start with repositories that match your language, runtime, and deployment model.
  • Check recent commits, issue activity, documentation quality, and license before adopting a project.
  • Use stars as a popularity signal, not as proof of fit or production readiness.
  • Common languages in this topic include Python, Go, PHP.
  • Frequent tags include Cybersecurity, cybersecurity, Python, awesome-list, hacking.

General Security repositories

45 repositories sorted by GitHub stars. Use the interactive explorer for live filters.

Interactive explorer

sherlock

General Security

Hunt down social media accounts by username across social networks

CybersecurityPythonclicticybersecurityforensics

Good for

  • Explore a popular cybersecurity repository
  • Study implementation patterns for Python projects
  • Open GitHub for documentation, examples, and issues
87k stars Python
GitHub

PayloadsAllTheThings

General Security

A list of useful payloads and bypass for Web Application Security and Pentest/CTF

CybersecurityPythonbountybugbountybypasscheatsheet

Good for

  • Explore a popular cybersecurity repository
  • Study implementation patterns for Python projects
  • Open GitHub for documentation, examples, and issues
79k stars Python
GitHub

caddy

General Security

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

CybersecurityGoacmeautomatic-httpscaddycaddyfile

Good for

  • Explore a popular cybersecurity repository
  • Study implementation patterns for Go projects
  • Open GitHub for documentation, examples, and issues
74k stars Go
GitHub

SecLists

General Security

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.

CybersecurityPHP

Good for

  • Explore a popular cybersecurity repository
  • Study implementation patterns for PHP projects
  • Open GitHub for documentation, examples, and issues
72k stars PHP
GitHub

ImHex

General Security

🔍 A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers, Programmers and people who value their retinas when working at 3 AM.

CybersecurityC++analyzerbinary-analysisc-plus-pluscpp

Good for

  • Explore a popular cybersecurity repository
  • Study implementation patterns for C++ projects
  • Open GitHub for documentation, examples, and issues
54k stars C++
GitHub

x64dbg

General Security

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

CybersecurityC++binary-analysisctfcybersecuritydebugger

Good for

  • Explore a popular cybersecurity repository
  • Study implementation patterns for C++ projects
  • Open GitHub for documentation, examples, and issues
49k stars C++
GitHub

strix

General Security

Open-source AI penetration testing tool to find and fix your app’s vulnerabilities.

CybersecurityPythonagentsai-hackingai-penetration-testingai-pentesting

Good for

  • Explore a popular cybersecurity repository
  • Study implementation patterns for Python projects
  • Open GitHub for documentation, examples, and issues
42k stars Python
GitHub

maigret

General Security

🕵️‍♂️ Collect a dossier on a person by username from 3000+ sites

CybersecurityPythonclicybersecurityidentificationinformation-gathering

Good for

  • Explore a popular cybersecurity repository
  • Study implementation patterns for Python projects
  • Open GitHub for documentation, examples, and issues
35k stars Python
GitHub

web-check

General Security

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

CybersecurityTypeScriptosintprivacysecuritysecurity-tools

Good for

  • Explore a popular cybersecurity repository
  • Study implementation patterns for TypeScript projects
  • Open GitHub for documentation, examples, and issues
34k stars TypeScript
GitHub

Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills

General Security

817 structured cybersecurity skills for AI agents · Mapped to 6 frameworks: MITRE ATT&CK, NIST CSF 2.0, MITRE ATLAS, D3FEND, NIST AI RMF & MITRE F3 (Fight Fraud) · agentskills.io standard · Works with Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex CLI, Cursor, Gemini CLI & 20+ platforms · 29 security domains · Apache 2.0

CybersecurityPythonai-agentsclaude-codecloud-securitycybersecurity

Good for

  • Explore a popular cybersecurity repository
  • Study implementation patterns for Python projects
  • Open GitHub for documentation, examples, and issues
26k stars Python
GitHub

personal-security-checklist

General Security

🔒 A compiled checklist of 300+ tips for protecting digital security and privacy in 2026

CybersecurityTypeScriptawesomeawesome-listcensorshipchecklist

Good for

  • Explore a popular cybersecurity repository
  • Study implementation patterns for TypeScript projects
  • Open GitHub for documentation, examples, and issues
22k stars TypeScript
GitHub

Mobile-Security-Framework-MobSF

General Security

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.

CybersecurityJavaScriptandroid-securityapi-testingapkcwe

Good for

  • Explore a popular cybersecurity repository
  • Study implementation patterns for JavaScript projects
  • Open GitHub for documentation, examples, and issues
21k stars JavaScript
GitHub

SWE-agent

General Security

SWE-agent takes a GitHub issue and tries to automatically fix it, using your LM of choice. It can also be employed for offensive cybersecurity or competitive coding challenges. [NeurIPS 2024]

CybersecurityPythonagentagent-based-modelaicybersecurity

Good for

  • Explore a popular cybersecurity repository
  • Study implementation patterns for Python projects
  • Open GitHub for documentation, examples, and issues
20k stars Python
GitHub

gun

General Security

An open source cybersecurity protocol for syncing decentralized graph data.

CybersecurityJavaScriptartificial-intelligencebig-datablockchaincrdt

Good for

  • Explore a popular cybersecurity repository
  • Study implementation patterns for JavaScript projects
  • Open GitHub for documentation, examples, and issues
19k stars JavaScript
GitHub

90DaysOfCyberSecurity

General Security

This repository contains a 90-day cybersecurity study plan, along with resources and materials for learning various cybersecurity concepts and technologies. The plan is organized into daily tasks, covering topics such as Network+, Security+, Linux, Python, Traffic Analysis, Git, ELK, AWS, Azure, and Hacking. The repository also includes a `LEARN.md

Cybersecuritycommunityexchangecybersecurityethical-hackinghacktoberfestlearn

Good for

  • Explore a popular cybersecurity repository
  • Study implementation patterns for software projects
  • Open GitHub for documentation, examples, and issues
18k stars
GitHub

wazuh

General Security

Wazuh - The Open Source Security Platform. Unified XDR and SIEM protection for endpoints and cloud workloads.

CybersecurityC++cloud-securitycomplianceconfiguration-assessementcontainer-security

Good for

  • Explore a popular cybersecurity repository
  • Study implementation patterns for C++ projects
  • Open GitHub for documentation, examples, and issues
16k stars C++
GitHub

semgrep

General Security

Lightweight static analysis for many languages. Find bug variants with patterns that look like source code.

CybersecurityOCamlcgojavajavascript

Good for

  • Explore a popular cybersecurity repository
  • Study implementation patterns for OCaml projects
  • Open GitHub for documentation, examples, and issues
16k stars OCaml
GitHub

GhostTrack

General Security

Useful tool to track location or mobile number

CybersecurityPythoncybersecurityfyphackinghacking-tool

Good for

  • Explore a popular cybersecurity repository
  • Study implementation patterns for Python projects
  • Open GitHub for documentation, examples, and issues
14k stars Python
GitHub

hacker101

General Security

Source code for Hacker101.com - a free online web and mobile security class.

CybersecuritySCSSclickjackingcsrfeducationhacker101

Good for

  • Explore a popular cybersecurity repository
  • Study implementation patterns for SCSS projects
  • Open GitHub for documentation, examples, and issues
14k stars SCSS
GitHub

Reverse-Engineering

General Security

A FREE comprehensive reverse engineering tutorial covering x86, x64, 32-bit/64-bit ARM, 8-bit AVR and 32-bit RISC-V architectures.

CybersecurityAssemblyarmassemblyassembly-languageassembly-language-programming

Good for

  • Explore a popular cybersecurity repository
  • Study implementation patterns for Assembly projects
  • Open GitHub for documentation, examples, and issues
14k stars Assembly
GitHub

bunkerweb

General Security

🛡️ Open-source and cloud-native Web Application Firewall (WAF)

CybersecurityPythonantibotcybersecuritydevopsdevsecops

Good for

  • Explore a popular cybersecurity repository
  • Study implementation patterns for Python projects
  • Open GitHub for documentation, examples, and issues
11k stars Python
GitHub

frappe

General Security

Low code web framework for real world applications, in Python and Javascript

CybersecurityPythoncmsemailerpnextfrappe

Good for

  • Explore a popular cybersecurity repository
  • Study implementation patterns for Python projects
  • Open GitHub for documentation, examples, and issues
10k stars Python
GitHub

httpx

General Security

httpx is a fast and multi-purpose HTTP toolkit that allows running multiple probes using the retryablehttp library.

CybersecurityGobugbountyclicybersecurityhacktoberfest

Good for

  • Explore a popular cybersecurity repository
  • Study implementation patterns for Go projects
  • Open GitHub for documentation, examples, and issues
10k stars Go
GitHub

cai

General Security

Cybersecurity AI (CAI), the framework for AI Security

CybersecurityPythonartificial-intelligencecybersecurityframeworkgenerative-ai

Good for

  • Explore a popular cybersecurity repository
  • Study implementation patterns for Python projects
  • Open GitHub for documentation, examples, and issues
9.5k stars Python
GitHub

awesome-incident-response

General Security

A curated list of tools for incident response

Cybersecurityawesomeawesome-listcybersecuritydfirincident-response

Good for

  • Explore a popular cybersecurity repository
  • Study implementation patterns for software projects
  • Open GitHub for documentation, examples, and issues
9.3k stars
GitHub

awesome-ml-for-cybersecurity

General Security

:octocat: Machine Learning for Cyber Security

Cybersecurityawesome-listcyber-securitydata-miningmachine-learning

Good for

  • Explore a popular cybersecurity repository
  • Study implementation patterns for software projects
  • Open GitHub for documentation, examples, and issues
9.1k stars
GitHub

osint_stuff_tool_collection

General Security

A collection of several hundred online tools for OSINT

CybersecurityHTMLawesomeawesome-listcybersecuritygeoint

Good for

  • Explore a popular cybersecurity repository
  • Study implementation patterns for HTML projects
  • Open GitHub for documentation, examples, and issues
8.5k stars HTML
GitHub

ntopng

General Security

Web-based Traffic and Cybersecurity Network Traffic Monitoring

CybersecurityLuacybersecuritydockerebpfipfix

Good for

  • Explore a popular cybersecurity repository
  • Study implementation patterns for Lua projects
  • Open GitHub for documentation, examples, and issues
8.0k stars Lua
GitHub

Awesome-WAF

General Security

Everything about Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) from Security Standpoint! 🔥

CybersecurityPythonawesomeawesome-listbypass-waffirewall

Good for

  • Explore a popular cybersecurity repository
  • Study implementation patterns for Python projects
  • Open GitHub for documentation, examples, and issues
7.5k stars Python
GitHub

awesome-youtubers

General Security

An awesome list of awesome YouTubers that teach about technology. Tutorials about web development, computer science, machine learning, game development, cybersecurity, and more.

CybersecurityMarkdownawesomeawesome-listlistyoutube

Good for

  • Explore a popular cybersecurity repository
  • Study implementation patterns for Markdown projects
  • Open GitHub for documentation, examples, and issues
7.5k stars Markdown
GitHub

flowsint

General Security

A modern platform for visual, flexible, and extensible graph-based investigations. For cybersecurity analysts and investigators.

CybersecurityTypeScriptinvestigationosintpythonrecon

Good for

  • Explore a popular cybersecurity repository
  • Study implementation patterns for TypeScript projects
  • Open GitHub for documentation, examples, and issues
7.3k stars TypeScript
GitHub

pyWhat

General Security

🐸 Identify anything. pyWhat easily lets you identify emails, IP addresses, and more. Feed it a .pcap file or some text and it'll tell you what it is! 🧙‍♀️

CybersecurityPythoncybercybersecurityhackinghacktoberfest

Good for

  • Explore a popular cybersecurity repository
  • Study implementation patterns for Python projects
  • Open GitHub for documentation, examples, and issues
7.3k stars Python
GitHub

caldera

General Security

Automated Adversary Emulation Platform

CybersecurityPythonadversary-emulationcalderacybersecurityhacking

Good for

  • Explore a popular cybersecurity repository
  • Study implementation patterns for Python projects
  • Open GitHub for documentation, examples, and issues
7.1k stars Python
GitHub

blackbird

General Security

An OSINT tool to search for accounts by username and email in social networks.

CybersecurityPythoncybersecurityosintpentestingpython

Good for

  • Explore a popular cybersecurity repository
  • Study implementation patterns for Python projects
  • Open GitHub for documentation, examples, and issues
7.0k stars Python
GitHub

DevSecOps

General Security

Ultimate DevSecOps library

Cybersecurityautomationawesomeawesome-listawsazure

Good for

  • Explore a popular cybersecurity repository
  • Study implementation patterns for software projects
  • Open GitHub for documentation, examples, and issues
6.8k stars
GitHub

DeepAudit

General Security

DeepAudit:人人拥有的 AI 黑客战队,让漏洞挖掘触手可及。国内首个开源的代码漏洞挖掘多智能体系统。小白一键部署运行,自主协作审计 + 自动化沙箱 PoC 验证。支持 Ollama 私有部署 ,一键生成报告。支持中转站。​让安全不再昂贵,让审计不再复杂。

CybersecurityPythonaibug-detectioncode-auditcode-quality

Good for

  • Explore a popular cybersecurity repository
  • Study implementation patterns for Python projects
  • Open GitHub for documentation, examples, and issues
6.7k stars Python
GitHub

Awesome-GPT-Agents

General Security

A curated list of GPT agents for cybersecurity

Cybersecurityagentscybersecurityinfosecllm

Good for

  • Explore a popular cybersecurity repository
  • Study implementation patterns for software projects
  • Open GitHub for documentation, examples, and issues
6.6k stars
GitHub

awesome-security-hardening

General Security

A collection of awesome security hardening guides, tools and other resources

Cybersecurityawesome-listbest-practicesblue-teamblueteamcis-benchmarks

Good for

  • Explore a popular cybersecurity repository
  • Study implementation patterns for software projects
  • Open GitHub for documentation, examples, and issues
6.5k stars
GitHub

suricata

General Security

Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine developed by the OISF and the Suricata community.

CybersecurityCcybersecurityidsintrusion-detection-systemintrusion-prevention-system

Good for

  • Explore a popular cybersecurity repository
  • Study implementation patterns for C projects
  • Open GitHub for documentation, examples, and issues
6.5k stars C
GitHub

cloudmapper

General Security

CloudMapper helps you analyze your Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments.

CybersecurityJavaScriptawscytoscapediagramsecurity

Good for

  • Explore a popular cybersecurity repository
  • Study implementation patterns for JavaScript projects
  • Open GitHub for documentation, examples, and issues
6.3k stars JavaScript
GitHub

gnuradio

General Security

GNU Radio – the Free and Open Software Radio Ecosystem

CybersecurityC++c-plus-pluscybersecuritydspgnu

Good for

  • Explore a popular cybersecurity repository
  • Study implementation patterns for C++ projects
  • Open GitHub for documentation, examples, and issues
6.2k stars C++
GitHub

Azure-Sentinel

General Security

Cloud-native SIEM for intelligent security analytics for your entire enterprise.

CybersecurityPythoncybersecuritysample-code

Good for

  • Explore a popular cybersecurity repository
  • Study implementation patterns for Python projects
  • Open GitHub for documentation, examples, and issues
6.0k stars Python
GitHub

kubernetes-goat

General Security

Kubernetes Goat is a "Vulnerable by Design" cluster environment to learn and practice Kubernetes security using an interactive hands-on playground 🚀

CybersecurityHTMLblueteamcloud-nativecloud-securitycloudsecurity

Good for

  • Explore a popular cybersecurity repository
  • Study implementation patterns for HTML projects
  • Open GitHub for documentation, examples, and issues
5.7k stars HTML
GitHub

1earn

General Security

ffffffff0x 团队维护的安全知识框架,内容包括不仅限于 web安全、工控安全、取证、应急、蓝队设施部署、后渗透、Linux安全、各类靶机writup

CybersecurityC++blueteamcollectionctfhacking

Good for

  • Explore a popular cybersecurity repository
  • Study implementation patterns for C++ projects
  • Open GitHub for documentation, examples, and issues
5.7k stars C++
GitHub

Learn-Web-Hacking

General Security

Study Notes For Web Hacking / Web安全学习笔记

CybersecurityPythonhackingpenetration-testingpentestingsecurity

Good for

  • Explore a popular cybersecurity repository
  • Study implementation patterns for Python projects
  • Open GitHub for documentation, examples, and issues
5.5k stars Python
GitHub