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Reference of authoritative sanctions and designation lists, the official, machine-readable sources operators consult for screening, enrichment, and compliance. The named-individual content lives at the source; this…
Reference of satellite constellations, positioning systems, and the data sources that catalog them. The orbital population exceeds 10,000 active satellites in 2026 (Starlink alone is ~6,000); this page is the lookup,…
Reference of software-defined-radio (SDR) hardware in common operator use, sorted by capability tier. The market splits into RX-only entry-level dongles, mid-tier RX+TX devices, multi- channel coherent SDRs (for…
Search-engine operators across the major providers. The operator chains these dorks to narrow open-source hits during target development.
Reference of end-to-end encrypted messaging applications, the underlying protocols, and the threat models they cover (and don’t). Operator concerns are usually metadata, key verification, multi-device sync, group MLS…
Reference of offensive and defensive security tools by category. The catalog below is the working set most pen-testers, red teamers, blue teamers, and detection engineers reach for. For hardware, see…
Shodan is a search engine for internet-connected devices. The operator uses it for recon, asset discovery, and tracking exposure to known services across an estate.
Reference of Security Information & Event Management (SIEM) and Security Orchestration / Automation / Response (SOAR) platforms. Covers ingest scale, query language, pricing model, and the open-source / cloud-native…
Signals intelligence. Collection of foreign signals, processed into intelligence. Umbrella for COMINT (communications), ELINT (non-communication emitters), and FISINT (foreign instrumentation telemetry).
Unix Signals
Snort is the long-running open-source network intrusion detection and prevention system. It reads packets off a span port (IDS) or sits inline (IPS), matches them against a rule set, and fires alerts or drops. Snort…
Reference of major social-media and messaging platforms with notes on country-level accessibility. Block / restriction status changes frequently; this page is a snapshot. Verify against NetBlocks, OONI Explorer,…
Operator tools for harvesting open-source data from social platforms. Each section bundles best-known tools for that network.
Social-media intelligence. Subset of OSINT focused on platform-mediated user-generated content. Posts, comments, profiles, friend / follower graphs, geotags, media metadata, and the platform APIs and scraping…
Splunk is a platform to search, analyze, and visualize machine-generated data from websites, applications, sensors, and devices. The operator uses SPL to extract fields, group events, and build detections.
Most examples target PostgreSQL; differences noted where MySQL or SQLite diverge.
sqlmap is an open-source penetration testing tool that automates detection and exploitation of SQL injection flaws and taking over database servers. The operator drives it against web apps to enumerate schemas, dump…
SSH is the operator’s primary remote shell, file copy, port-forward, and tunnel utility. This page covers core invocations, advanced key and config flags, tunneling, security hardening, and log triage.
Reference of the international, regional, and US standards operators encounter daily, across security, privacy, infrastructure, communication, and industry compliance.
Reference catalog of infostealer malware families and the marketplaces that resell their output. Stealer logs differ from breaches in structure: a victim machine runs infostealer malware, the operator collects…
Format codes for date / time string formatting. The same codes work across most languages’ formatters: C strftime, Python datetime.strftime, Go time.Format (with translation), Java DateTimeFormatter,…
Root directory layout the operator needs when traversing a live macOS host or a mounted disk image. The hidden .-prefixed entries are Apple-specific.
Sublime Text is a polished, paid, cross-platform native editor first released in 2008. Often credited as the editor that defined the “fast, beautiful, batteries-included” category…
Reference of software supply-chain attack classes and the defensive frameworks (SBOM, SLSA, in-toto, sigstore) that have emerged since SolarWinds (2020). Useful for SDLC hardening, CI/CD pipeline review, and…