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Vuurmuur – powerful firewall manager built on top of ​iptables

February 26, 2026 Steve Emms Security

Vuurmuur is a powerful firewall manager built on top of iptables on Linux. It has a simple and easy to learn configuration that allows simple and complex configurations.

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Exosphere – aggregated patch and security update reporting

February 24, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security, TUI

Exosphere is a CLI and Text UI driven application that offers aggregated patch and security update reporting.

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cariddi – scanning tool

February 23, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Take a list of domains, crawl urls and scan for endpoints, secrets, api keys, file extensions, tokens and more.

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Anti-Malware Tools

YARA-X – re-incarnation of YARA

February 21, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

YARA-X is a re-incarnation of YARA, a pattern matching tool designed with malware researchers in mind.

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Kanha – web-app pentesting suite

February 21, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

With kanha you can do Fuzzing, Reverse dns lookup, common http response, subdomain takeover detection and many more.

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PRS – web security scanner

February 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

PRS is a CLI-based scanner focused on safe assessment of web targets.

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Encrypted Files

rsecure – AES-GCM file encryption and decryption tool

February 19, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

rsecure is a command-line tool for AES-GCM file encryption and decryption. Aimed at protecting sensitive files, backups, and personal data.

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Technology

14 Best Free and Open Source Steganography Tools

February 18, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Security

Conceal messages in other messages.

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Security

Envy – manage secrets

February 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security, TUI

Envy is a single binary that gives you both a slick TUI for browsing secrets and a CLI for automation.

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Security

Chamber – secrets manager

February 11, 2026 Steve Emms Security, TUI

Chamber is a secure, local-first secrets manager, featuring encrypted storage, intuitive terminal UI, and import/export capabilities.

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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 Detection

9 Best Free and Open Source Host-Based Intrusion Detection Systems

February 6, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Security

An intrusion detection system is a device or software application that monitors a network or systems for malicious activity or policy violations.

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Security

6 Best Free and Open Source Web Application Firewalls

January 30, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Security, System Software

A web application firewall (WAF) is a type of application firewall that lets you see and analyze HTTP traffic to and from a web application. We recommend our favourite WAFs.

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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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Security

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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