Rob Ragan

Offensive security researcher and AI agent architect. Founder of Starlog.

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1135 articles

Rob Ragan is an offensive security researcher and AI agent architect who has spent two decades breaking into systems and building tools to automate the process. At Starlog, he curates expert deep-dives on the open-source tools reshaping offensive security and AI agent development.

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Developer Tools

MFASweep: Finding the Weak Links in Microsoft's MFA Enforcement Chain

By Rob Ragan ★ 1.6k PowerShell Apr 3, 2026

Cybersecurity

Offensive AI Compilation: A Taxonomy of Machine Learning Attack Vectors and Defensive Countermeasures

By Rob Ragan ★ 1.4k HTML Apr 3, 2026

Cybersecurity

70,000 WordPress Vulnerabilities in One Command: Inside the Nuclei-Wordfence Pipeline

By Rob Ragan ★ 1.2k Python Apr 3, 2026

Cybersecurity

wsrepl: The Interactive WebSocket REPL Built for Penetration Testing Workflows

By Rob Ragan ★ 235 Python Apr 3, 2026

Developer Tools

Deobfuscating JavaScript with LLMs: How Humanify Separates Structural and Semantic Transformations

By Rob Ragan ★ 3.1k TypeScript Apr 3, 2026

Developer Tools

Cybrland: Building a Design System for Your Linux Desktop

By Rob Ragan ★ 183 CSS Apr 3, 2026

Developer Tools

Building a Notion OCR Pipeline with Azure Computer Vision: A Polling Architecture Breakdown

By Rob Ragan ★ 51 Python Apr 3, 2026

AI Dev Tools

Inside CERT Société Générale's Incident Response Playbook: Battle-Tested Security Methodologies from the Financial Sector

By Rob Ragan ★ 1.1k Unknown Apr 3, 2026

Developer Tools

Fingerprinting Microsoft 365 Defenses: How check_mdi Detects Defender for Identity Without Authentication

By Rob Ragan ★ 216 Python Apr 3, 2026

AI Dev Tools

Flowistry: The IDE Plugin That Fades Away Code You Don't Need to Read

By Rob Ragan ★ 3.0k Rust Apr 3, 2026

Developer Tools

Aquascope: Teaching Rust's Ownership Model Through Compiler-Backed Visualizations

By Rob Ragan ★ 3.0k Rust Apr 3, 2026

Developer Tools

Mining Secrets from Spring Boot Memory: Inside pyhprof's HPROF Parser

By Rob Ragan ★ 29 Python Apr 3, 2026