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Scanning projects on GitHub
Scanning networks, ports, and repos for exposures and risks.
As of , the most-starred Scanning projects on GitHub are zxing (34.2K stars), trufflehog (28.6K stars) and RustScan (20.6K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 6 Scanning repositories with 114K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was trufflehog, with +16 stars in a day.
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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16
trufflehog
trufflesecurity/trufflehog · ★ 28.6KTruffleHog is a CLI tool that discovers, classifies, validates, and analyzes leaked secrets like API keys, database passwords, and private keys across many sources (Git, GitHub, S3, Docker, Slack, filesystems, and more).
+12fscan
shadow1ng/fscan · ★ 14.7Kfscan is an open-source intranet scanner written in Go: one command runs an all-round internal-network audit — host discovery, port scanning, service identification, weak-password brute force and vulnerability detection.
+5RustScan
bee-san/RustScan · ★ 20.6KRustScan is an open-source port scanner written in Rust: it finds open ports fast — all 65k ports in as little as 3 seconds — and has a scripting engine for Python, Lua and Shell.
+2zxing
zxing/zxing · ★ 34.2KZXing ('Zebra Crossing') is an open-source, multi-format 1D/2D barcode image processing library written in Java, best known for QR Code scanning on Android, with ports to other languages.
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6 projects · by stars
- 34.2K
#1 · zxing/zxingzxing
ZXing ('Zebra Crossing') is an open-source, multi-format 1D/2D barcode image processing library written in Java, best known for QR Code scanning on Android, with ports to other languages.
- 28.6K
#2 · trufflesecurity/trufflehogtrufflehog
TruffleHog is a CLI tool that discovers, classifies, validates, and analyzes leaked secrets like API keys, database passwords, and private keys across many sources (Git, GitHub, S3, Docker, Slack, filesystems, and more).
- 20.6K
#3 · bee-san/RustScanRustScan
RustScan is an open-source port scanner written in Rust: it finds open ports fast — all 65k ports in as little as 3 seconds — and has a scripting engine for Python, Lua and Shell.
- 4

esp8266_deauther
15KSpacehuhnTech/esp8266_deauther · CESP8266 Deauther is open-source firmware for the ESP8266 chip that lets you scan nearby WiFi networks, send deauthentication packets to disconnect devices, and spin up dozens of fake WiFi networks to confuse scanners - an affordable platform for testing and learning about WiFi security.
- 5

fscan
14.7Kshadow1ng/fscan · Gofscan is an open-source intranet scanner written in Go: one command runs an all-round internal-network audit — host discovery, port scanning, service identification, weak-password brute force and vulnerability detection.
- 6

shulihuazixuecongshu
928tradecatlabs/shulihuazixuecongshu · PythonThis repository preserves and rebuilds the 17-volume Chinese textbook series '数理化自学丛书' (Self-Study Series of Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry), keeping the original scanned PDFs alongside semantic Markdown transcriptions, extracted image assets, and tools to reproducibly build EPUB3 editions.
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