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Vulnerability Detection

Trivy – comprehensive and versatile security scanner

December 4, 2025 Steve Emms Security

Trivy is a comprehensive and versatile security scanner. It looks for security issues, and targets where it can find those issues.

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Vulnerability Detection

ZAP – web app scanner

October 5, 2025 Steve Emms Security, Web Apps

ZAP can help you automatically find security vulnerabilities in your web applications while you are developing and testing your applications.

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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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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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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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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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Vulnerability Detection

OpenSCAP – NIST Certified SCAP 1.2 toolkit

September 4, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Security

OpenSCAP is both a library and a command line tool which can be used to parse and evaluate each component of the SCAP standard.

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Vulnerability Detection

Nuclei – fast and customisable vulnerability scanner

September 3, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Security

nuclei is a fast and customisable vulnerability scanner based on simple YAML based DSL.

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Metasploit – penetration testing framework

November 4, 2023 Steve Emms Security

Metasploit is a security project for security vulnerabilities and aids in penetration testing and IDS signature development.

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Lynis – auditing, system hardening, compliance testing

November 4, 2023 Steve Emms Security

Lynis is a security tool. It performs an extensive health scan of your systems to support system hardening and compliance testing.

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OpenVAS – full-featured vulnerability scanner

November 4, 2023 Steve Emms Security

OpenVAS is a full-featured vulnerability scanner. It is the scanner component of Greenbone Vulnerability Manager (GVM).

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OSSEC – host-based intrusion detection system

November 4, 2023 Steve Emms Security

OSSEC is an Open Source Host-based Intrusion Detection System that performs log analysis, integrity checking, monitoring, rootkit detection.

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