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Security

Chamber – secrets manager

February 11, 2026 Steve Emms Security, TUI

Chamber is a local-first Rust secrets manager with an encrypted SQLite vault, terminal interface, backup tools and a REST API.

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Technology

Rooks – steganographic tool

February 8, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Rook Stego is a steganographic tool that implements some of the most advanced hiding methods.

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Intrusion Prevention - SSH

ConfigServer Security & Firewall – front-end to iptables or nftables

January 23, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Security

ConfigServer Security & Firewall (CSF) is a Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI) firewall and Login/Intrusion Detection and Security application.

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Security

sif – pentesting (recon/exploitation) suite

January 14, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

sif is designed to be fast, concurrent, and extensible. Run multiple scan types against targets with a single command.

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KeyStore Explorer – GUI replacement for keytool and jarsigner

January 13, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Security

KeyStore Explorer is an open source GUI replacement for the Java command-line utilities keytool and jarsigner.

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ruri – calculates the CRC-32 of a file

December 31, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

ruri calculates the CRC-32 of a file and checks it against the filename.

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Network

snitch – friendlier ss / netstat tool

December 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security, TUI

snitch is a friendlier ss / netstat for humans. It lets you inspect network connections with a clean TUI or styled tables.

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Network Analyzers

Kyanos – networking analysis tool using eBPF

December 28, 2025 Steve Emms Security

Kyanos is an eBPF-based network issue analysis tool that enables you to capture network requests, such as HTTP, Redis, and MySQL requests.

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Security

why2 – easy to use encryption system

December 28, 2025 Steve Emms Security

why2 is billed as a lightweight, fast, secure, and easy to use encryption system.

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Security

letmein – authenticated port/firewall knocking

December 28, 2025 Steve Emms Security

Letmein is a port knocker with a simple and secure authentication mechanism. It can be used to harden against pre-authentication attacks.

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Security

AutoTimeliner – generate forensic timelines from memory dumps

December 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

AutoTimeliner combines Volatility 3 plugin results into sorted CSV timelines from Windows, Linux and macOS memory images.

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Security

yarp – Windows Registry forensic parser

December 10, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

yarp parses Windows Registry hives, including damaged fragments and deleted keys, for incident response and forensic examination.

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Security

Volshell – interactive memory analysis with Volatility 3

December 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Volshell provides an interactive Volatility 3 console for inspecting processes, structures and memory objects in forensic images.

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Security

fnox – encrypted/remote secret manager

December 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

fnox loads secrets from encrypted files and remote providers into development commands, with profiles, shell integration and CI support.

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Security

pypykatz – Python implementation of Mimikatz

December 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

pypykatz analyses Windows LSASS dumps, Registry hives and DPAPI data, helping forensic investigators recover credentials and secrets.

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Security

EVTXtract – recover fragmented Windows event logs

December 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

EVTXtract recovers damaged or fragmented Windows event records from memory images and raw binary data, reconstructing useful XML evidence.

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Security

AVML – acquire volatile memory from Linux systems

December 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

AVML captures physical memory on x86-64 Linux systems, supporting compressed LiME images and uploads for incident response workflows.

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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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