Rob Ragan
FOUNDING CONTRIBUTOROffensive 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
Automation
Hunting .DS_Store Files at Scale: How internetwache's Scanner Exploits macOS Metadata Leaks
★ 35 May 12, 2026
Developer Tools
JSScanner: The Bug Bounty Hunter's Swiss Army Knife for JavaScript Reconnaissance
★ 273 May 12, 2026
Developer Tools
ffufplus: When Shell Scripts Make Better Security Tools Than Frameworks
★ 191 May 12, 2026
Cybersecurity
Jaeles: Building a Signature-Based Web Scanner That Speaks YAML
★ 2.3k May 12, 2026
Cybersecurity
Building Custom Query String Fuzzers: Inside qsfuzz's Rule-Based Vulnerability Detection
★ 302 May 12, 2026
Automation
Inception: The Web Scanner That Deliberately Slows Down to Evade WAF Detection
★ 384 May 12, 2026
Cybersecurity
Inside Nuclei Templates: How 12,000 YAML Files Became the Lingua Franca of Vulnerability Detection
★ 12.3k May 12, 2026
Cybersecurity
Inside Nuclei: How YAML Templates Became a Crowdsourced Vulnerability Database
★ 28.3k May 12, 2026
Automation
Spartan: The Shell Script That Chains Your Recon Tools (And Why That's Both Good and Bad)
★ 194 May 12, 2026
Cybersecurity
Inside pedrib/PoC: A Master Class in Vulnerability Research and Exploit Development
★ 855 May 12, 2026
Cybersecurity
Building a GitHub Trending Bot: What 115 Stars Taught Us About Scraping, Storage, and Social Growth
★ 115 May 12, 2026
Cybersecurity
GitHacker: Exploiting Exposed .git Directories When Directory Listings Are Disabled
★ 1.6k May 12, 2026