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Security

Best Free and Open Source Secrets Management Software

December 12, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Security

Secrets management tools let you securely store, manage, and monitor sensitive information like passwords, API keys, and certificates.

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yarp – yet another registry parser

December 10, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

yarp is yet another registry parser written in the Python programming language.

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Volshell – CLI tool for working with memory

December 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Volshell is a utility to access the volatility framework interactively with a specific memory image.

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fnox – encrypted/remote secret manager

December 8, 2025 Steve Emms Security

fnox lets you manage secrets with encryption or cloud providers—or both.

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pypykatz – Python implementation of Mimikatz

December 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

pypykatz is a cross-platform implementation of Mimikatz written in Python.

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EVTXtract – recovers and reconstructs fragments of EVTX log files

December 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

EVTXtract recovers and reconstructs fragments of EVTX log files from raw binary data, including unallocated space and memory images.

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Security

Useful Free and Open Source Security Testing Software

December 5, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Security

Here’s some useful software for performing security testing. Only free and open source software is eligible for inclusion here.

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Security

AVML – Acquire Volatile Memory for Linux

December 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

AVML is an X86_64 userland volatile memory acquisition tool written in Rust, intended to be deployed as a static binary.

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Vulnerability Detection

Trivy – comprehensive and versatile security scanner

December 4, 2025 Steve Emms Security

Trivy is a comprehensive and versatile security scanner. It looks for security issues, and targets where it can find those issues.

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Network Analyzers

Network Monitor – real-time network connection monitoring tool

December 4, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet, Security

Network Monitor is real-time network connection monitoring tool displaying active connections with live I/O statistics

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Cybersecurity

passless – software FIDO2 authenticator

November 30, 2025 Steve Emms Security

passless is a software FIDO2 authenticator that emulates a hardware security key. It’s built with soft-fido2

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Anti-Malware Tools

14 Best Free and Open Source Anti-Malware Tools

November 5, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Security

Security is paramount. Security involves defence in depth. Approaching security one step at a time, with consistency and rigour, you can mitigate threats, and keep intruders at bay.

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Anti-Malware Tools

Lenspect – scan files for threats

October 25, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Security

Lenspect is a lightweight security threat scanner intended to make malware detection more accessible and efficient.

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Encrypted Files

10 Best Free and Open Source Linux GUI File Encryption Tools

October 24, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Security

This roundup looks at the finest GUI-based file encryption tools. Only free and open source software is included.

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Cloud storage

Falco – cloud native runtime security tool

October 22, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Security

Falco is a cloud native runtime security tool that detects and alerts on abnormal behavior and potential security threats in real-time.

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Encrypted Files

OpaqueFiles – file encryption software

October 6, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Security

OpaqueFiles is file encryption software that encrypts/decrypts files so they can be stored securely using compression.

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Vulnerability Detection

BURP – security testing

October 6, 2025 Steve Emms Security

Burp Suite enables its users to accelerate application security testing, no matter what their use case.

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Vulnerability Detection

ZAP – web app scanner

October 5, 2025 Steve Emms Security, Web Apps

ZAP can help you automatically find security vulnerabilities in your web applications while you are developing and testing your applications.

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Encryption software

Vault – tool for securely accessing secrets

October 4, 2025 Steve Emms Security

Secure, store, and tightly control access to tokens, passwords, certificates, encryption keys for protecting secrets.

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Security

InterceptSuite – network traffic interception tool

October 3, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Security

InterceptSuite is a network traffic interception tool engineered for comprehensive TLS/SSL inspection, analysis, and manipulation.

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