Hack-with-Github/Awesome-Hacking

What it does

The repository is a single README containing two tables: 47 entries under "Awesome Repositories" and 34 under "Other Useful Repositories". Each row is a name, a link and one sentence. The subjects run across application and web security, malware analysis and reverse engineering, threat intelligence and incident response, penetration testing and red teaming, bug bounty programmes and capture-the-flag puzzles, embedded and Internet-of-Things security, vehicle and drone security, Android, open-source intelligence, fuzzing, password cracking, forensics, Tor, Web3 and — newer — prompt-injection attacks against AI systems. It is published under CC0-1.0, which puts it in the public domain, so the whole thing can be copied into your own notes without asking. It has 116,878 stars, no releases, and the last change landed on 7 May 2026. It contains no tools, no code and no explanations: every row sends you somewhere else, and whether the destination is current is the destination's problem, not this repository's.

Why it matters

Who it suits. Anyone starting out in security, or anyone experienced who has been handed a topic outside their usual corner and needs the best starting list rather than the first search result. It is also a good shape to copy: two tables and one sentence per row stays readable at 81 entries, which most link collections do not manage. Skip it if you already know the landscape, because you will recognise most of it, and skip it if you learn by doing rather than by reading.

Verdict. Worth ten minutes once, then a bookmark. Treat it as a map, not as a syllabus: a list of lists has two layers of staleness, and the only date you can check is this repository's own. The rows that point at living projects — PayloadsAllTheThings, the OWASP cheat sheets — are worth far more than the rows that point at a list somebody abandoned in 2019, and nothing on the page tells you which is which. So open three or four rows, see which destinations are still moving, and keep those. The star count is remarkable and means very little: a list is easy to star and costs nothing to keep.