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Rob Ragan

Rob Ragan

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

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1661 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.

// ARTICLES BY ROB RAGAN

Automation

SMB-Check: When a 50-Line Bash Script Beats Your Security Scanner

By Rob Ragan ★ 19 Unknown May 15, 2026
Cybersecurity

Building a Self-Documenting Security Remediation Pipeline: Lessons from AvP

By Rob Ragan ★ 1 Unknown May 15, 2026
Developer Tools

shshget: A Ghost Repository and What It Teaches Us About Open Source Discovery

By Rob Ragan ★ 2 Unknown May 15, 2026
Developer Tools

fwknop: The Single Packet Authorization System That Makes Your SSH Server Invisible

By Rob Ragan ★ 1.4k Unknown May 15, 2026
Automation

JackyRelay: A Digital Fossil from Google Code's Python 2 Era

By Rob Ragan ★ 1 Unknown May 15, 2026
Automation

Inside the WebAssembly/design Repository: Where the Future of Web Computing Gets Decided

By Rob Ragan ★ 11.6k Unknown May 15, 2026
Developer Tools

Inside the NSA's PowerShell Toolkit for Stopping Pass-the-Hash Attacks

By Rob Ragan ★ 199 Unknown May 15, 2026
Automation

Authomatic: The Framework-Agnostic OAuth Library That Refuses to Play Favorites

By Rob Ragan ★ 1.1k Unknown May 15, 2026
Cybersecurity

Inside Cockatrice: Building a Cheat-Proof Virtual Tabletop with Qt and Server-Authoritative Design

By Rob Ragan ★ 1.8k Unknown May 15, 2026
Developer Tools

ElastAlert: The Archived Alerting Framework That Defined Elasticsearch Monitoring

By Rob Ragan ★ 8.0k Unknown May 14, 2026
Developer Tools

Creepy: The OSINT Tool That Exposed Social Media's Geolocation Nightmare

By Rob Ragan ★ 1.4k Unknown May 14, 2026
Developer Tools

Creepy: The OSINT Tool That Proved We Were Broadcasting Our Lives

By Rob Ragan ★ 428 Unknown May 14, 2026