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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 Payload Generators for ffuf: The Unix Pipeline Approach to Web Fuzzing

★ 226 May 12, 2026
Cybersecurity

Building a Browser Extension to Hunt Exposed API Keys: A Deep Dive into KeyFinder's Architecture

★ 664 May 12, 2026
Developer Tools

Gopherus: Weaponizing a 1991 Protocol to Exploit Modern SSRF Vulnerabilities

★ 3.4k May 12, 2026
Developer Tools

50mm: Why This S3-Backed Photo Gallery Ditches Databases and Preprocessing

★ 56 May 12, 2026
Developer Tools

CVE-2020-7961: Dissecting a Liferay Portal Deserialization Exploit

★ 4 May 12, 2026
Developer Tools

FProbe: Fast HTTP Probing with Inline Port Specification for Security Reconnaissance

★ 193 May 12, 2026
Cybersecurity

Smogcloud: Finding the AWS Assets Your Security Team Forgot About

★ 348 May 12, 2026
Developer Tools

Popular-Site-Subdomains: The Bug Bounty Hunter's Secret Wordlist

★ 187 May 12, 2026
Data & Knowledge

Go-Flashpaper: Building a Memory-Only Secret Sharing Service with Honeypot Forensics

★ 153 May 12, 2026
Developer Tools

Mining Apache's server-status: A Security Researcher's Field Guide

★ 24 May 12, 2026
Automation

LazyRecon: The Bash Script That Chains 12 Security Tools Into One Reconnaissance Pipeline

★ 2.0k May 12, 2026
Developer Tools

genkiroid/cert: Inspect TLS Certificates Without the OpenSSL Ceremony

★ 240 May 12, 2026