← All authors
Rob Ragan

Rob Ragan

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

offensive securityAI agentspenetration testingred teamingapplication security

1670 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

Metaphone: The Forgotten Phonetic Algorithm That Still Outperforms for Speed

★ 54 May 13, 2026
Developer Tools

ioc2rpz: Turning Threat Intelligence Into DNS Policy Without Vendor Lock-In

★ 113 May 13, 2026
Cybersecurity

Building Network Scanners in Go: How Ullaakut/nmap Wraps a 25-Year-Old Binary

★ 1.0k May 13, 2026
Developer Tools

Automating ACM Certificate Validation: A Python Script That Clicks the AWS Console Button For You

★ 21 May 13, 2026
Developer Tools

Inside CVE-2019-3396: How Velocity Template Injection Turned Confluence Into a Remote Shell

★ 146 May 13, 2026
Cybersecurity

KeyHacks: The Bug Bounty Hunter's Cookbook for Validating Leaked API Credentials

★ 6.2k May 13, 2026
AI Agents

Building a Self-Hosted Attack Surface Scanner with Natlas: Architecture Deep-Dive

★ 659 May 13, 2026
Developer Tools

Awesome-Asset-Discovery: The Reconnaissance Map Every Security Engineer Needs

★ 2.6k May 13, 2026
Cybersecurity

Inside BlueKeep: Dissecting CVE-2019-0708's RDP Exploit Architecture

★ 113 May 13, 2026
Cybersecurity

K8tools: Inside China's Most Popular Offensive Security Arsenal

★ 6.2k May 13, 2026
AI Dev Tools

Tarnish: Building a Static Analysis Pipeline for Chrome Extension Security

★ 161 May 13, 2026
Cybersecurity

ffuf: How Go's Concurrency Model Makes It the Fastest Web Fuzzer for Security Testing

★ 16.0k May 13, 2026