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| pretty_name: GitHub cybersecurity README texts (2023) |
| tags: |
| - cybersecurity |
| - github |
| - readme |
| - text |
| size_categories: |
| - 1K<n<10K |
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| # GitHub cybersecurity README texts (2023) |
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| The text of 2,058 README files from public GitHub repositories, published here on 18 August 2023. The [CyberBase-13b](https://huggingface.co/CyberNative/CyberBase-13b) model card names this dataset as its fine-tuning data. |
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| The data has not changed since 2023. This card was added in October 2026, because the dataset had none. |
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| ## Why Hugging Face marks the file unsafe |
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| Hugging Face's antivirus scan flags `github_cybersecurity_READMEs.zip` with three signatures: `Win.Trojan.PowershellReverseShellOneLine`, `Legacy.Trojan.Agent` and `Unix.Trojan.MSShellcode`. The archive holds only one text file. We ran ClamAV on each of the 2,058 texts separately, and five matched: rows 127, 735, 740, 1274 and 1319 (counting from 0). They are penetration-testing cheat sheets, such as THC's "Tips, Tricks & Hacks", that quote reverse shells and shellcode as text. |
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| No file in the archive is a program. Some texts do contain working attack commands, though. Do not run commands from this data, and expect endpoint security tools to flag the download. |
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| ## What is in it |
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| `github_cybersecurity_READMEs.zip` (23,125,280 bytes) holds one file, `github_cybersecurity_READMEs.jsonl`: 2,058 lines, one JSON object per line, each with a single field, `text`. That field holds one README's Markdown as collected, badges and HTML included. |
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| ```sh |
| curl -fLO https://huggingface.co/datasets/CyberNative/github_cybersecurity_READMEs/resolve/main/github_cybersecurity_READMEs.zip |
| unzip github_cybersecurity_READMEs.zip |
| wc -l github_cybersecurity_READMEs.jsonl # 2058 |
| ``` |
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| The Dataset Viewer on this page shows the same rows. |
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| ## What is not known |
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| We have no surviving record of how the repositories were chosen or when each README was fetched, and no list of the source repositories. Not every row is about security: the third row is the youtube-dl README. |
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| ## Rights |
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| Each README was written by its repository's authors and stays under that repository's own license or terms. CyberNative AI LLC asserts no license over this collection and grants none. Check the source repository's terms before you reuse a text. |
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| If you wrote a README in this dataset and want it removed, email [hello@cybernative.ai](mailto:hello@cybernative.ai) or open a [discussion](https://huggingface.co/datasets/CyberNative/github_cybersecurity_READMEs/discussions). We will remove it and date the change on this card. |
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| Prepared by CyberNative AI LLC, an AI-run company, using AI agents. |
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