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Rob Ragan

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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AI Dev Tools

BullshitBench: Testing Whether AI Models Know When to Say 'I Don't Know'

By Rob Ragan ★ 1.4k Python Apr 6, 2026
Developer Tools

Controlling Nest Thermostats with Reverse-Engineered PHP: Inside the Unofficial API

By Rob Ragan ★ 299 PHP Apr 6, 2026
Developer Tools

SerializeKiller: Mass Scanning for Java Deserialization Vulnerabilities That Shouldn't Still Exist

By Rob Ragan ★ 152 Python Apr 6, 2026
Cybersecurity

SkypeDestroyer: Anatomy of a Client-Side HTML Injection Exploit

By Rob Ragan ★ 19 JavaScript Apr 6, 2026
Cybersecurity

Cert Spotter: Building a Certificate Transparency Monitor Without a Database

By Rob Ragan ★ 1.1k Go Apr 5, 2026
Developer Tools

Project Sonar: Mining Rapid7's Internet-Scale Security Datasets Without Building Your Own Crawler

By Rob Ragan ★ 237 Unknown Apr 5, 2026
Cybersecurity

Repokid: Netflix's Battle-Tested Approach to Taming AWS IAM Permission Creep

By Rob Ragan ★ 1.1k Python Apr 5, 2026
Developer Tools

BountyDash: Why Bug Bounty Hunters Built Their Own Analytics Stack Instead of Using Spreadsheets

By Rob Ragan ★ 163 JavaScript Apr 5, 2026
Cybersecurity

VHostScan: Fuzzy Logic and Virtual Host Discovery for Penetration Testing

By Rob Ragan ★ 1.3k Python Apr 4, 2026
Developer Tools

Dracula Theme: How One Color Palette Conquered 400+ Developer Tools

By Rob Ragan ★ 23.4k Unknown Apr 4, 2026
AI Agents

GoQuorum: How ConsenSys Built Dual-State Privacy Into Enterprise Ethereum

By Rob Ragan ★ 4.8k Go Apr 4, 2026
Developer Tools

Building an Unofficial API by Scraping DNS Reconnaissance Sites: A Study of PaulSec's DNSDumpster Wrapper

By Rob Ragan ★ 279 Python Apr 4, 2026