Rob Ragan

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

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1762 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

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

★ 1.1k Python May 15, 2026

Cybersecurity

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

★ 1.8k C++ May 15, 2026

Developer Tools

ElastAlert: The Archived Alerting Framework That Defined Elasticsearch Monitoring

★ 8.0k Python May 14, 2026

Developer Tools

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

★ 1.4k Python May 14, 2026

Developer Tools

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

★ 428 Python May 14, 2026

Infrastructure

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

★ 392 C++ May 14, 2026

Cybersecurity

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

★ 819 PHP May 14, 2026

Developer Tools

Reverse-Engineering Apple's Binary Sandbox Profiles with Python

★ 146 Python May 14, 2026

Developer Tools

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

★ 9 Python May 14, 2026

Cybersecurity

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

★ 572 JavaScript May 14, 2026

Developer Tools

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

★ 69 Python May 14, 2026

Developer Tools

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

★ 125 C May 14, 2026