Rob Ragan
FOUNDING CONTRIBUTOROffensive security researcher and AI agent architect. Founder of Starlog.
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1767 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
AJPy: Weaponizing the Apache JServ Protocol for Tomcat Security Testing
★ 474 Python May 13, 2026
Developer Tools
Building CLI Tools with oclif: Lessons from a Deprecated GitHub Search Tool
★ 120 TypeScript May 13, 2026
Cybersecurity
Jaeger: How Uber's Distributed Tracing System Became the OpenTelemetry Standard-Bearer
★ 22.8k Go May 13, 2026
Developer Tools
CVE-2020-0688: When Microsoft Exchange Shipped the Same Cryptographic Keys to Everyone
★ 165 Python May 13, 2026
Cybersecurity
ShuffleDNS: Why Smart Wildcard Detection Matters More Than Raw DNS Speed
★ 1.6k Go May 13, 2026
Cybersecurity
tomnomnom/hacks: The Unix Philosophy Applied to Bug Bounty Hunting
★ 2.5k Go May 13, 2026
AI Dev Tools
Batea: Teaching Machines to Think Like Penetration Testers
★ 303 Python May 12, 2026
Developer Tools
gf: How a 200-Line Go Wrapper Turned grep Into a Security Research Power Tool
★ 2.1k Go May 12, 2026
Developer Tools
Building a Ghostcat Vulnerability Scanner: Inside CNVD-2020-10487 Detection
★ 3 Python May 12, 2026
Developer Tools
Building a Ghostcat Detector: How fatal0's Go Tool Probes the CVE-2020-1938 Vulnerability
★ 7 Go May 12, 2026
Developer Tools
Sysdig: The Universal System Call Translator That Turns Your Linux Kernel Into a Time Machine
★ 8.2k C++ May 12, 2026
Cybersecurity
tfsec: The Terraform Security Scanner That Became Part of Trivy
★ 7.0k Go May 12, 2026