Rob Ragan
FOUNDING CONTRIBUTOROffensive 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
Developer Tools
Inside DTD-Attacks: A Cross-Language Framework for Testing XML Parser Vulnerabilities
★ 56 Java May 14, 2026
Developer Tools
The Backdoor Factory: How Binary Patching Works Without Breaking Executables
★ 3.4k Python May 14, 2026
Cybersecurity
Hound: How Trigram Indexing Delivers Sub-Second Code Search Without ElasticSearch
★ 5.8k JavaScript May 14, 2026
Developer Tools
XSS Hunter Client: How MITM Proxies Solve the XSS Correlation Problem
★ 259 Python May 14, 2026
Cybersecurity
HackVault: A Security Researcher's Personal Arsenal of Web Exploitation Techniques
★ 2.0k JavaScript May 14, 2026
Cybersecurity
Chuckle: The Shell Script That Automates Multi-Tool SMB Relay Attacks
★ 153 Shell May 14, 2026
Cybersecurity
VisualCodeGrepper: The Legacy SAST Tool That Scans COBOL and Classic ASP When Nothing Else Will
★ 548 Visual Basic .NET May 14, 2026
Developer Tools
DET: Testing Data Loss Prevention by Thinking Like an Attacker
★ 824 Python May 14, 2026
Data & Knowledge
PyExfil: A Security Researcher's Laboratory for Testing 30+ Data Exfiltration Techniques
★ 806 Python May 14, 2026
Developer Tools
Subsearch: When Subdomain Enumeration Met Scala's Type Safety
★ 75 Scala May 14, 2026
Developer Tools
Marker: Building a Command Palette for Your Terminal
★ 2.1k Python May 14, 2026
Cybersecurity
WAVSEP: The Forgotten Benchmark That Exposed Security Scanner Snake Oil
★ 241 Java May 14, 2026