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Anti-Malware Tools

Kunai Sandbox – QEMU-based malware analysis platform

September 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Kunai Sandbox isolates malware in QEMU virtual machines and records detailed system and network activity for threat analysis and detection engineering.

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DevOps

Reko – general-purpose machine code decompiler

September 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Reko is a general-purpose machine code decompiler with broad architecture support, command-line operation and an extensible analysis engine.

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Easy-RSA – command-line PKI management utility

September 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Easy-RSA is a command-line PKI utility for creating certificate authorities, signing certificates and managing revocation with OpenSSL.

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Encrypted Files

sigtool – file signing and encryption utility

September 19, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

sigtool is a command-line tool for signing, verifying, encrypting and decrypting files with Ed25519, X25519, AES-GCM and OpenSSH keys.

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ScanCode Toolkit – scan code for licenses and software components

September 19, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

ScanCode Toolkit detects licenses, copyrights, packages, dependencies and vulnerabilities in source and binary code with extensive outputs.

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XCA – graphical certificate and key management

September 19, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Security

XCA is a graphical certificate and key management tool for creating certificate authorities, requests, keys and X.509 certificates.

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REDasm – cross-platform disassembler and binary analysis tool

September 19, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Security

REDasm is a cross-platform disassembler and binary analysis tool with graphs, cross-references, type handling, patching and project support.

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Dogtag PKI – enterprise certificate authority suite

September 19, 2026 Steve Emms Security, Web Apps

Dogtag PKI is an enterprise certificate authority suite providing lifecycle management, key recovery, OCSP, ACME and EST services.

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Anti-Malware Tools

Cuckoo3 – automated malware analysis sandbox

September 19, 2026 Steve Emms Security, Web Apps

Cuckoo3 is an automated malware analysis sandbox for testing suspicious files and links in isolated Windows environments from a Linux host.

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OpenXPKI – enterprise-grade PKI management platform

September 19, 2026 Steve Emms Security

OpenXPKI is an enterprise PKI platform offering certificate lifecycle management, workflows, multiple CAs, SCEP and EST.

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Encryption

agevault – directory encryption using age

September 19, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

agevault is a simple command-line directory encryption tool built around age, using passphrase-protected identities to lock and unlock vaults.

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Security

IPED – digital evidence processor and analysis tool

September 18, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Security

IPED processes and analyses digital evidence with high-performance indexing, data carving, searching, timelines, viewers and reporting tools.

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SBOM Tool – scalable Software Bill of Materials generator

September 18, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

SBOM Tool generates and validates SPDX Software Bills of Materials for build artifacts, with component detection and CI/CD integration.

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Encrypted Files

transcrypt – transparent encryption for Git repositories

September 18, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

transcrypt provides transparent encryption for selected files in Git repositories using Git filters and OpenSSL while preserving normal workflows.

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step-ca – online certificate authority for automated certificate management

September 18, 2026 Steve Emms Security

step-ca is an automated certificate authority for managing X.509 and SSH certificates, ACME services and private PKI.

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Security

UAC – Unix-like artefact collector for incident response

September 18, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

UAC automates forensic artefact collection from Linux and other Unix-like systems with portable, profile-driven incident response workflows.

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Syft – generate Software Bills of Materials

September 17, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Syft generates Software Bills of Materials from container images, filesystems and archives, with support for SPDX, CycloneDX and attestations.

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Security

Dissect – digital forensics and incident response framework

September 17, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Dissect is a Python digital forensics and incident response framework for analysing forensic artefacts across disk, file system and OS formats.

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Security

5 Best Free and Open Source Threat Intelligence Platforms

September 17, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Security

Discover the best free and open source threat intelligence platforms for collecting, enriching, analysing and sharing cyber threat data.

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Security

L0p4Map – network monitoring and visualization tool

September 17, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Security

L0p4Map is a graphical network monitoring and visualization tool with Nmap integration, topology mapping, traffic analysis and alerts.

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