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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. It shows open ports, hostnames, and allows easy rescan with a clean, user-friendly interface. This is free and open source software. Features include:  Fast

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7 Best Free and Open Source Graphical Data Hashing Tools

August 11, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Security

Hashing is the process of passing data through a formula to produce a condensed fixed-value representation, called a hash value.

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11 Best Free and Open Source Linux Digital Forensics Tools

August 8, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Security, System Software

Digital forensics is a specialist art. It allows investigations to be undertaken without modifying the media.

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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 – secure encryption tool

July 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

PurrCrypt is a fur-ociously secure encryption tool that encodes your secrets as adorable cat and dog sounds.

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Wifi

10 Best Free and Open Source Wireless Security Tools

July 29, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, Security

Wireless security is the prevention of unauthorized access or damage to computers or data using wireless networks, which include Wi-Fi networks.

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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 encryption application that supports several recipients and has the option to update an encrypted file.

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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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