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Awesome Cyber Skills
Curated list of 100+ free, legal environments for practicing offensive security: deliberately-vulnerable apps (DVWA, Juice Shop, WebGoat, Mutillidae), CTF platforms (HackTheBox, TryHackMe, picoCTF, Root-Me), wargames (OverTheWire, pwnable.kr), and specialized labs for crypto, RE, and binary exploitation.
Use responsibly
Test only systems you own or are explicitly authorized to test. Unauthorized testing is illegal.
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- AI Megalistreference-indexMIT-licensed curated index of 225+ general-purpose AI tools (chat, coding, research, image, video, voice, agents, local model runners) with a per-tool writeup page; a general AI directory with no security-specific content.
- Awesome AI Securityreference-indexA curated list of AI/ML security resources organized into adversarial examples, evasion attacks, poisoning attacks, feature selection, and code (e.g. CleverHans, Foolbox). Aggregates papers, libraries, videos, and blog posts on attacking and defending ML systems.
- Awesome Bug Bounty Toolsreference-indexA curated, security-specific directory of ~200+ open-source bug-bounty and pentest tools organized by phase and vulnerability class: reconnaissance (subdomain enum, port scanning, content discovery), exploitation (SQLi, XSS, XXE, SSRF, CSRF, command injection), and specialized scanning (JWT, S3 buckets, CMS, WAF evasion). CC0-licensed.
- Awesome Burp Extensionsreference-indexA curated, categorized index of Burp Suite extensions for web application penetration testing, organized by domain: active/passive scanners, decoders/beautifiers, cloud security (AWS/Azure/GCP), auth testing (OAuth/SAML/JWT/SSO), vulnerability-specific plugins (XSS/SQLi/CSRF/XXE/SSRF), WAF evasion, integrations (Nuclei/Elasticsearch), and payload/fuzzing generators.
- Awesome Generative AI Appsreference-indexMIT-licensed catalogue of open-source generative-AI SaaS templates (image, video, virtual try-on, writing, chatbots, voice) on a shared Next.js/Stripe/Google-OAuth stack, built to be forked and resold; no security content.
- Awesome Hackingreference-indexA large, widely-used index of curated security awesome-lists for hackers, pentesters, and researchers, spanning 50+ domains including web hacking, bug bounty, malware analysis, OSINT, Android, IoT, forensics, and cryptography.