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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

Infrastructure

SUIDGuard: Inside a Kernel Extension That Fought macOS Privilege Escalation in 2015

By Rob Ragan ★ 392 Unknown May 14, 2026
Cybersecurity

PCC: The Two-Day Self-Destructing PHP Security Audit

By Rob Ragan ★ 819 Unknown May 14, 2026
Developer Tools

Reverse-Engineering Apple's Binary Sandbox Profiles with Python

By Rob Ragan ★ 146 Unknown May 14, 2026
Developer Tools

Businessifier: Why Penetration Testers Need a Profanity Filter for Their Wordlists

By Rob Ragan ★ 9 Unknown May 14, 2026
Cybersecurity

XSS ChEF: The Chrome Extension Exploitation Framework That Revealed a Security Crisis

By Rob Ragan ★ 572 Unknown May 14, 2026
Developer Tools

Breaking WebSocket Security: How koto/socket_io_client Exposes the Browser Sandbox Illusion

By Rob Ragan ★ 69 Unknown May 14, 2026
Developer Tools

Harpoon: Building a Runtime Function Hooking Library for macOS from First Principles

By Rob Ragan ★ 125 Unknown May 14, 2026
Developer Tools

Magic Wormhole: Secure File Transfer Using Password-Authenticated Cryptography

By Rob Ragan ★ 22.6k Unknown May 14, 2026
AI Agents

Vinchuca: Understanding P2P Botnet Architecture Through a Deliberately Neutered Research Framework

By Rob Ragan ★ 74 Unknown May 14, 2026
AI Agents

DarkAgent RAT: Dissecting a 2012 Remote Administration Tool for Security Research

By Rob Ragan ★ 142 Unknown May 14, 2026
AI Dev Tools

Spidernet: What SSH-Based Botnets Teach Us About Remote Administration Gone Wrong

By Rob Ragan ★ 103 Unknown May 14, 2026
Cybersecurity

Netflix's Sleepy Puppy Docker: Why This Deprecated XSS Hunter Works Only Over HTTP

By Rob Ragan ★ 44 Unknown May 14, 2026