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Category: Security

Anti-Malware Tools

Lenspect – check files and URLs with VirusTotal

October 25, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Security

Lenspect checks files and URLs through VirusTotal, with detailed detection results, scan history, report exports, and quota monitoring.

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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 – encryption software for secure file storage

October 6, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Security

OpaqueFiles encrypts and archives files with password-derived keys, compression and error correction. Explore its file protection features.

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Vulnerability Detection

ZAP – web application security scanner

October 5, 2025 Steve Emms Security, Web Apps

ZAP tests web application security with an intercepting proxy, automated scanning, authentication testing and extensible add-on ecosystem.

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Encryption software

Vault – secure secrets management and encryption

October 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security, Web Apps

Vault centralizes secrets management with dynamic credentials, certificate issuance, access policies, audit logging and encryption.

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Chameleon Ultra GUI – frontend for the Chameleon Ultra/Chameleon Lite

September 27, 2025 Steve Emms Security

Chameleon Ultra GUI is a GUI for the Chameleon Ultra/Chameleon Lite written in Flutter for cross platform operation.

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Security

OpenBao – manage, store, and distribute sensitive data

September 24, 2025 Steve Emms Security

OpenBao secures application secrets, certificates and encryption keys with access policies, dynamic credentials, audit logs and an API.

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Security

Infisical – secrets management, PKI, and SSH access

September 22, 2025 Steve Emms Security

Infisical manages application secrets and environment configurations with a web dashboard, integrations, CLI and self-hosting options.

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Encryption

Shufflecake – create multiple hidden volumes

September 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Shufflecake creates multiple hidden encrypted volumes on Linux storage devices, providing layered plausible deniability under coercion.

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Email

Common Email Security Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

August 28, 2025 John O'Donnell Security

Let’s talk through some of the most common mistakes people make with email security and how to avoid falling into the same traps.

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Encrypted Files

Xecrets Cli – AxCrypt-compatible command-line encryption toolbox

August 22, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Xecrets Cli is an AxCrypt-compatible command-line encryption toolbox with file encryption, public keys, secret sharing and scripting.

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Security

Kingfisher – secret‑scanning and live validation tool

August 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Kingfisher is a secret‑scanning and live validation tool combining Hyperscan regex engine with language‑aware parsing.

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Security

NetPeek – discover devices on your local network

August 14, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Security

NetPeek is a simple network scanner that helps you discover active devices on your local network.

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Security

Fizz – TLS 1.3 implementation

July 30, 2025 Steve Emms Security

Fizz currently supports TLS 1.3 drafts 28, 26 (both wire-compatible with the final specification), and 23.

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Security

PurrCrypt – file encryption wrapped in cat and dog sounds

July 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

PurrCrypt is a Rust command-line encryption tool that combines secp256k1 public-key cryptography with cat and dog themed text encoding.

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Security

TruffleHog – discovery, classification, validation, and analysis tool

July 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

TruffleHog is a secret scanning engine that detects and helps resolve exposed secrets across your entire tech stack.

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Encrypted Files

v02enc – symmetric encryption for multiple recipients

July 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

v02enc is a password-based command-line encryption tool supporting multiple recipients, authenticated encryption and file workflows

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Selection of utilities

Sysdig – dig deeper

July 15, 2025 Steve Emms Security, System Software

Sysdig is a universal system visibility tool with native support for containers.

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QCalcFileHash – hash calculator

July 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Security

QCalcFileHash is a calculator hash: SHA1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512, MD5, CRC32, CRC8, and others.

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Network Security

md5 – generate / check MD5 message digest

July 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

md5 is a command line utility which generates and verifies message digests (digital signatures) using the MD5 algorithm.

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