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Rob Ragan

Rob Ragan

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

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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

Building CLI Tools with oclif: Lessons from a Deprecated GitHub Search Tool

★ 120 May 13, 2026
Cybersecurity

Jaeger: How Uber's Distributed Tracing System Became the OpenTelemetry Standard-Bearer

★ 22.8k May 13, 2026
Developer Tools

CVE-2020-0688: When Microsoft Exchange Shipped the Same Cryptographic Keys to Everyone

★ 165 May 13, 2026
Cybersecurity

ShuffleDNS: Why Smart Wildcard Detection Matters More Than Raw DNS Speed

★ 1.6k May 13, 2026
Cybersecurity

tomnomnom/hacks: The Unix Philosophy Applied to Bug Bounty Hunting

★ 2.5k May 13, 2026
AI Dev Tools

Batea: Teaching Machines to Think Like Penetration Testers

★ 303 May 12, 2026
Developer Tools

gf: How a 200-Line Go Wrapper Turned grep Into a Security Research Power Tool

★ 2.1k May 12, 2026
Developer Tools

Building a Ghostcat Vulnerability Scanner: Inside CNVD-2020-10487 Detection

★ 3 May 12, 2026
Developer Tools

Building a Ghostcat Detector: How fatal0's Go Tool Probes the CVE-2020-1938 Vulnerability

★ 7 May 12, 2026
Developer Tools

Sysdig: The Universal System Call Translator That Turns Your Linux Kernel Into a Time Machine

★ 8.2k May 12, 2026
Cybersecurity

tfsec: The Terraform Security Scanner That Became Part of Trivy

★ 7.0k May 12, 2026
Cybersecurity

Scout: When Your Web Fuzzer Needs to Fit in a Single Binary

★ 593 May 12, 2026