diff --git a/.github/workflows/header-check.yml b/.github/workflows/header-check.yml
index e3bb0f1..2725ed4 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/header-check.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/header-check.yml
@@ -24,8 +24,8 @@ jobs:
               continue
             fi
 
-            # check if file starts with the license header
-            if ! head -n 3 "$file" | grep -q "█▀ █ █▀▀"; then
+            # check if file starts with the license header (signature is on line 4)
+            if ! head -n 5 "$file" | grep -q "█▀ █ █▀▀"; then
               missing_headers+=("$file")
             fi
           done < <(find . -name "*.go" -type f -print0)
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 9073295..2b45806 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,16 +1,11 @@
 <div align="center">
 
-```
-·━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━·
-:                                                                               :
-:   █▀ █ █▀▀                                                                    :
-:   ▄█ █ █▀    blazing-fast pentesting suite                                    :
-:                                                                               :
-·━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━·
-```
+<img src="assets/banner.png" alt="sif" width="600">
 
-[![go version](https://img.shields.io/github/go-mod/go-version/dropalldatabases/sif?style=flat-square&color=00ADD8)](https://go.dev/)
-[![build](https://img.shields.io/github/actions/workflow/status/dropalldatabases/sif/go.yml?style=flat-square)](https://github.com/dropalldatabases/sif/actions)
+<br><br>
+
+[![go version](https://img.shields.io/github/go-mod/go-version/vmfunc/sif?style=flat-square&color=00ADD8)](https://go.dev/)
+[![build](https://img.shields.io/github/actions/workflow/status/vmfunc/sif/go.yml?style=flat-square)](https://github.com/vmfunc/sif/actions)
 [![license](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-BSD--3--Clause-blue?style=flat-square)](LICENSE)
 
 **[install](#install) · [usage](#usage) · [modules](#modules) · [contribute](#contribute)**
@@ -31,7 +26,7 @@ sif is a modular pentesting toolkit written in go. it's designed to be fast, con
 
 ### from releases
 
-grab the latest binary from [releases](https://github.com/dropalldatabases/sif/releases).
+grab the latest binary from [releases](https://github.com/vmfunc/sif/releases).
 
 ### from source
 
diff --git a/sif.go b/sif.go
index e6cf276..d95a2a7 100644
--- a/sif.go
+++ b/sif.go
@@ -1,3 +1,15 @@
+/*
+·━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━·
+:                                                                               :
+:   █▀ █ █▀▀   ·   Blazing-fast pentesting suite                                :
+:   ▄█ █ █▀    ·   BSD 3-Clause License                                         :
+:                                                                               :
+:   (c) 2022-2025 vmfunc (Celeste Hickenlooper), xyzeva,                        :
+:                 lunchcat alumni & contributors                                :
+:                                                                               :
+·━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━·
+*/
+
 // Package sif provides the main functionality for the SIF (Security Information Finder) tool.
 // It handles the initialization, configuration, and execution of various security scanning modules.
 
@@ -45,8 +57,8 @@ func New(settings *config.Settings) (*App, error) {
 	app := &App{settings: settings}
 
 	if !settings.ApiMode {
-		fmt.Println(styles.Box.Render("       _____________\n__________(_)__  __/\n__  ___/_  /__  /_  \n_(__  )_  / _  __/  \n/____/ /_/  /_/    \n"))
-		fmt.Println(styles.Subheading.Render("\nhttps://sif.sh\nman's best friend\n\ncopyright (c) 2023-2024 lunchcat and contributors.\n\n"))
+		fmt.Println(styles.Box.Render("   █▀ █ █▀▀\n   ▄█ █ █▀ "))
+		fmt.Println(styles.Subheading.Render("\nblazing-fast pentesting suite\nman's best friend\n\nbsd 3-clause · (c) 2022-2025 vmfunc, xyzeva & contributors\n"))
 	}
 
 	if len(settings.URLs) > 0 {