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Password Managers

LaZagne – credentials recovery project

June 13, 2025 Steve Emms Security

LaZagne is an application used to retrieve lots of passwords stored on a local computer.

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Wifi

Wifite is a Python script for auditing wireless networks

June 10, 2025 Steve Emms Security

Wifite runs existing wireless-auditing tools for you. Stop memorizing command arguments & switches.

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Linux Distributions

pfSense – firewall and routing platform

June 8, 2025 Erik Karlsson Distro, Security

The pfSense project is a powerful open source firewall and routing platform based on FreeBSD. pfSense software includes a web interface.

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Security

Bouncer chooses the correct firewall zone for wireless connections

June 1, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet, Security

When you connect to a new network, Bouncer will open a window prompting you for what kind of network (e.g. home, public, work) it is.

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Encrypted Files

eddy – fast command-line file encryption tool

February 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

eddy is a fast command-line file encryption tool with concurrent processing, authenticated decryption, passphrase generation and globbing.

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Encrypted Files

Vaults – keep files safe

February 27, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Security

Vaults lets you create encrypted vaults in which you can safely store files. It currently uses gocryptfs and CryFS for encryption.

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Encrypted Files

Volaris for Desktop – wrapper for Volaris

February 27, 2025 Steve Emms Security

Volaris GUI is a sleek and modern application designed to streamline the process of file encryption and decryption using key files.

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Encrypted Files

Qccrypt – frontend for ccrypt

February 26, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Security

Qccrypt is a Qt cross-platform frontend for the ccrypt command-line tool.

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Encryption software

Volaris – encryption tool

February 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Volaris is an encryption tool designed to prioritize privacy and security.

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Encrypted Files

ccrypt – tool for encrypting and decrypting files and streams

February 22, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

ccrypt is a tool for encrypting and decrypting files and streams. It is based on the Rijndael block cipher.

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Vulnerability Detection

Terrapin Vulnerability Scanner for the Terrapin attack

February 8, 2025 Steve Emms Security

The Terrapin Vulnerability Scanner can be used to determine the vulnerability of an SSH client or server against the Terrapin Attack.

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Encryption software

File Lock PEA – filesystem-level encryption

February 7, 2025 Steve Emms Security

File Lock PEA (PEA = Password Encrypting Archive) encrypts data at the filesystem level

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Vulnerability Detection

octoscan – static vulnerability scanner

February 7, 2025 Steve Emms Security

Octoscan is a static vulnerability scanner for GitHub action workflows.

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Encrypted Files

Encpipe – encryption tool

February 6, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Encpipe is billed as the simplest encryption tool in the world.

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Vulnerability Detection

Greenbone Vulnerability Manager – central management service

February 4, 2025 Steve Emms Security

The Greenbone Vulnerability Manager is the central management service between security scanners and the user clients.

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Encrypted Files

PGPTool – encrypt and decrypt files

February 4, 2025 Steve Emms Security

PGPTool is a Java-based desktop GUI application for easy and regular PGP decryption/encryption.

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Vulnerability Detection

grype – vulnerability scanner

February 3, 2025 Steve Emms Security

grype is a vulnerability scanner for container images and filesystems.

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Encryption

Kryptor – simple, modern, and secure file encryption and signing tool

February 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Kryptor lets you encrypt multiple files/directories with a passphrase, symmetric key, or asymmetric keys.

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Encryption software

Kleopatra – KDE tool for managing X.509 and OpenPGP certificates

February 1, 2025 Steve Emms Security

Kleopatra is the KDE tool for managing X.509 and OpenPGP certificates in the GpgSM and GPG keyboxes and for retrieving certificates.

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Encrypted Files

Picocrypt – small and secure encryption tool

January 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Picocrypt is billed as a very small (hence Pico), very simple, yet very secure encryption tool that you can use to protect your files.

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