Rob Ragan
FOUNDING CONTRIBUTOROffensive security researcher and AI agent architect. Founder of Starlog.
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1845 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
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
Cybersecurity
Scout: When Your Web Fuzzer Needs to Fit in a Single Binary
★ 593 Go May 12, 2026
Developer Tools
Building Payload Generators for ffuf: The Unix Pipeline Approach to Web Fuzzing
★ 226 Shell May 12, 2026
Cybersecurity
Building a Browser Extension to Hunt Exposed API Keys: A Deep Dive into KeyFinder's Architecture
★ 664 JavaScript May 12, 2026
Developer Tools
Gopherus: Weaponizing a 1991 Protocol to Exploit Modern SSRF Vulnerabilities
★ 3.4k Python May 12, 2026
Developer Tools
50mm: Why This S3-Backed Photo Gallery Ditches Databases and Preprocessing
★ 56 Go May 12, 2026
Developer Tools
CVE-2020-7961: Dissecting a Liferay Portal Deserialization Exploit
★ 4 May 12, 2026