Cyber starter pack
This is a starter pack for the cybersecurity and information security community on Bluesky. By following these people, you can instantly join the cybersecurity conversation on Bsky. The pack is a work in progress, suggestions are welcome.
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@patrickhowelloneill.com
@darynant.bsky.social
Cybersecurity Reporter at Recorded Future News. Ex at The Kyiv Independent/Forbes/The Kyiv Post 📍Kyiv, Ukraine
@jennamclaughlin.bsky.social
NPR Cybersecurity Correspondent (currently) reporting on the transformation of the federal government including by DOGE. Send me a tip: Text JennaMcLaughlin.54 on Signal from personal (nonwork) devices.
@adamshostack.bsky.social
Threat modeling. BH Review Board. Affiliate Professor, UW. Fixed autorun. Helped create CVE. Not sure why we're building graphs on yet another (effectively) centralized system. https://infosec.exchange/@adamshostack
@maggiemiller.bsky.social
Cybersecurity reporter for Politico based in DC. Also history, dog, and good TexMex taco nerd. mmiller@politico.com, DM for Signal
@samsabin.bsky.social
Axios cybersecurity reporter, taking it day by day ✨ | 📩: sam.sabin@axios dot com, signal: SamSabin.01 (no pitches!), she/her
@jsrailton.bsky.social
Chasing digital badness. Senior Researcher at Citizen Lab, but words here are mine.
@districtcon.bsky.social
A new DC hacker conference: Bringing together builders, breakers, and fixers to do cool shit. Feb. 21-22, 2025 districtcon.org
@winnona.bsky.social
@DistrictCon Founder. Harvard & Georgetown MPP/JD candidate. @CyberStatecraft / @BelferCenter fellow, ex-Google threat research. Dog mom. Opinions=my own 👩🏻💻
@untersin.gr
Cyber / disinformation / privacy / Big Tech / scams @ Le Monde Contact: familyname @lemonde.fr Auteur d'"Espionner, mentir, détruire : comment le cyberespace est devenu un champ de bataille", éditions Grasset : cyber.untersin.gr
@keithchu.bsky.social
Comms for Sen. Wyden of Oregon but takes are my own. Guinea pig friend, kid dad, soccer enthusiast, seattle sports, hobby farmer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzHLPnGuVSQ
@chrissistrunk.bsky.social
Husband, Dad, ⚡EE⚡, ICS/OT Security, Technical Leader @ Mandiant (Google Cloud) Ex-Entergy 💡, BEER-ISAC #002, LaTech Alum #BBQ, Bourbon, Mississippi Sippers 🥃🦟, weirdo klugemeister, #sockstatus, #dadjokes #DJaaS #NAPCON Keynote 📍 Mississippi, y'all
@avani.bsky.social
ML/Systems researcher with delusions of neuroscience and cryptography. Currently @Cloudflare and Emory. Dilettante SFF writer. Fellow of Odd Salon. I like to play the drums. #vp2023. https://linktr.ee/circumviso
@oxley.io
Amazon/AWS Threat Intelligence. @CitizenLab.ca Research Fellow. Former federal agent. Fan of space, books, technology, and Mother Nature🌪️. Personal account. 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 #ThreatIntel Storm chasing: https://bsky.app/profile/wxdox.com
@fbajak.bsky.social
Journalist with tech focus. Ex-Associated Press foreign correspondent. First AP tech editor, Andes chief. frankbajak.com fbajak(at)proton(dot)me - DM for Signal#
@hatr.bsky.social
reporter covering cyber (both crime and state-sponsored) for Der Spiegel and ZDF, short overview at https://linktr.ee/hakantanriverdi
@pearswick.press
Multi award-losing journalist and European Cybersecurity Correspondent at @Reuters.com, via Hanoi, Seoul and Pyongyang. Now in London. “A bum who wrote an ignominious jumble of stories” - North Korea ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ 📞Signal ID: pearswick.01 💻: pearswick.press
@ddimolfetta.bsky.social
Nextgov/FCW cybersecurity + intelligence reporter. Tips: ddimolfetta@govexec.com Signal: @ djd.99 X/Twitter: @ddimolfetta
@weld.bsky.social
Gray haired gray hat. Co-founder Veracode. Former L0pht security researcher. Builds tools to find and fix vulnerabilities in code at scale. Twitter: https://twitter.com/WeldPond
@hypatia.bsky.social
Security, diversity, housing, Canadian stuff 🇨🇦. Cofounder and CEO of @tallpoppy.bsky.social; more at leighhoneywell.com
@alexmartin.bsky.social
Journalist covering cybersecurity and intelligence. UK Editor at The Record from Recorded Future News. Dad of two. 🏠 Sheffield 📧 alexander.martin@therecord.media 📱 Ask for Signal/PGP
@GossiTheDog.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy
Cybersecurity weather person and award winning shitposter. Shitposting is an anagram of Top Insights. You may be surprised to know I am not representing […] [bridged from https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
@mshelton.bsky.social
Digisec @freedom.press. Was that @mshelton guy on the other site. Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@mshelton Digisec newsletter: https://freedom.press/newsletters
@martinmatishak.bsky.social
Senior Cybersecurity Reporter at The Record from Recorded Future News. Send tips to martin.matishak@therecord.media. Signal: mmatishak.80
@agarri.fr
Web hacker 😈 Burp Suite Pro trainer 👨🏫 Maintainer of @mastering-burp.agarri.fr 🛠️
@charles.dardaman.com
Security | Hacking | Malware | Reverse Engineering | Co-Founder | CTO | Product | MSAI - UT
@thevega.bsky.social
I do threat intel things. Former Activision Blizzard // Epic Games. Currently putting the G in 5G. Kinda passionate and extremely okay. Opinions are my own. He/him/#FSD 🦆
@supriyam.bsky.social
Now Google Threat Intelligence & doing fun things at DistrictCon, fmrly GreyNoiseIO and RecordedFuture, SAISHopkins MASCI alumna | ♡s & rts are my own, my employer definitely doesn’t like Taylor Swift that much
@hexadecim8.com
Author of "Hack to the Future". Now available! https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Hack+to+The+Future%3A+How+World+Governments+Relentlessly+Pursue+and+Domesticate+Hackers-p-9781394169825
@geminiimatt.bsky.social
Hacker. Founder of , @cryptoharlem.bsky.social, counter-surveillance, safety, and security expert. Pushing back against inequality in all it's forms. Anti surveillance, trainer to all marginalized & oppressed people everywhere. (He/They)
@cooperq.com
Senior Staff technologist at @eff.org Fellow at @citizenlab.ca Board member of @openarchive.bsky.social. "Noted activist security type." The Register once called me a boffin. Anti-fascist. he/him. My skeets do not represent views of my employers ⵣ🏴
@micahflee.com
Member of https://lockdown.systems/ collective making @cyd.social — writing at https://micahflee.com — author of HACKS, LEAKS, AND REVELATIONS https://hacksandleaks.com — signal: micah.01
@metacurity.com
Cybersecurity writer, analyst, book author, publisher. https://metacurity.com/ https://cyberriskbook.com/ https://www.csoonline.com/profile/cynthia-brumfield/ https://infosec.exchange/@metacurity Send tips to Cynthia.507 via Signal.
@jwarminsky.bsky.social
( Tired of bios ) News editor at The Record: @therecordmedia.bsky.social ( Often thinking about music ) ( Etc. )
@mikecherry.bsky.social
Live to see them die Every billionaire is a policy failure Signal: DM for handle
@craiu.bsky.social
Romanian antihacker from another planet. #threatintel #yara #chess #taekwondo black belt Motto: "One reboot a day keeps the implant away"
@dustinchilds.bsky.social
Just a simple information security gnome trying to make his way through the universe. Part-time patch wrangler. Tweets are just my opinion and such. Got questions about patches or bug bounties? My DMs are open. Signal: DustinChilds.17
@threathuntergirl.bsky.social
Friendly Neighborhood CTI Analyst | Children’s Book Author | Lego builder | Gamer | She/Her
@shellsharks.com
Infosec researcher | more about me @ https://shellsharks.com @shellsharks@shellsharks.social on Mastodon
@jamieb.com
Dad • Gamer • Humanist • InfoSec • Cyber • Founder & CTO @socura.co.uk • Previously @ PANW • MDR / SOC Platform Engineering • Detection Engineering • DFIR 🌐 jamieb.com 📍 Buckinghamshire, UK
@beny23.github.io
Maker, breaker and fixer of software. Adventures in #appsec and #agile: beny23.github.io he/him
@suzannesmalley.bsky.social
Reporter covering digital privacy, disinformation and cybersecurity policy for The Record. Mom. Pub trivia queen. Crossword enthusiast. Literary fiction connoisseur. Idiosyncratic. Signal: Suzanne.236 Email: suzanne.smalley@therecord.media.
@rjmd.bsky.social
💼 Digital Forensics & Incident Response 📱Talk all things tech and cyber 🏔️ Backpacking 🏃 Running 🤿 Scuba All opinions are from a southern right whale I met off the coast of Tasmania 🐋
@securescientist.eu
Dad, husband, cybercrime prof with a kink for attacker economics. Head of the Threat Analysis group @tue.nl. 🇳🇱 by profession, 🇮🇹 by nature, 🇪🇺 by conviction. Optimistic cynicism is my thing. Love most. 🌏🔗securescientist.eu
@richinseattle.bsky.social
Fuzzing; Vulnerability Research; Deep Learning; Reverse Engineering Training & Publications @ http://fuzzing.io Hacking the planet since 1995 Undercurrents.io BOFH I'll stop the world and melt with you
@rmogull.com
Cloud security, hacker, run/bike/drown, TK11940 in the 501st, itinerant disaster paramedic, private pilot, and other stuff. @rmogull on Signal SVP of Cloud Security at FireMon. CEO of Securosis. Both totally made up titles. https://slaw.securosis.com
@medus4.com
Activist, Hacker cosplayer, Artist. Data economy abolitionist. @cdc_pulpit Sinfluencer, Head of Humanity @ Veilid, designer of weird shirts at hack.xxx I love gross terrifying things. Because I am one
@jun34u.bsky.social
Alaskan in Los Angeles. Chaotic idealist. Hacker and Game Theorist cDc Cultist Forever Script Kiddie She/They 🏳️🌈🏴☠️
@dildog.l0pht.com
cDc/hack.xxx/veilid Support Veilid! Badge: 🅅 www.veilid.com Merch at: @hack.xxx he/him
@sifu.tweety.fish
at different times: haxx0r in cDc PhD in using people for ML and vice versa "theory of mind for autonomous cars" startup guy would you believe, went kablooie at present: newsletter -- buttondown.email/apperceptive &c music, politics, nonsense
@obscure.bsky.social
I am angry, I am ill, and I am as ugly as sin. My irritability keeps me alive and kicking. I know the meaning of life, it doesn’t help me a bit. cDc Cultee
@micahsch.bsky.social
@mccune.org.uk
Security geek, Containers, Kubernetes, Golang/Ruby, hillwalking Home Page :- https://www.mccune.org.uk Blog:- https://raesene.github.io
@signaltonoise.bsky.social
Student of literature, law, and the classics. Marine intelligence manager turned attorney, now practicing cyber risk. Cycles and loops, it’s all cycles and loops.
@activemeasures.bsky.social
Active Measures, LLC is a full service research and writing firm. For details see activemeasuresllc dot com or reach out to walkin [at] activemeasuresllc [dot] com.
@ridt.bsky.social
Author of ACTIVE MEASURES, RISE OF THE MACHINES, CYBER WAR WILL NOT TAKE PLACE, "Attributing Cyber Attacks," more. Johns Hopkins, Alperovitch Institute.
@damienmiller.bsky.social
debugging, v: the process of inserting printf statements into code until one's errors reveal themselves
@hackinglz.hackpwn.net
CTO @TrustedSec.com | Former Optiv/SecureWorks/Accuvant Labs/Redspin | Race cars
@justinschuh.com
Back in Chicago as a stay-at-home dad. Expect a mix of infosec (plus privacy and safety), 3D printing, and some politics. You're probably following me because of my old job(s). infosec.exchange/@jschuh Defunct: twitter.com/justinschuh
@wendyck.bsky.social
Startup CISO. BSidesLV Lockpick. Hacker lawyer. Amzn & Google alum, USCG wife, Wellesley, GMU Law. IAAL but IANYL.
@granick.bsky.social
Personal account. ACLU lawyer. From New Jersey. Living in San Francisco. New College of Florida alum. Newfie owner.
@riana.bsky.social
Tech policy researcher at Stanford. Former litigator. Dum spiro spero. Anger is an energy. she/her
@nsqe.bsky.social
AGC of Privacy at LTK. Board member @ Engine.is. Does the infosec law stuff too. Queer. Dorky. Lawyer, not really searching for redemption. @nsqe basically everywhere. Be less toxic on bsky challenge, difficulty level pretty easy actually
@kennwhite.bsky.social
cryptography • neuro • cloud • biscuits ORD-DCA-NYC-BCN ✈️ kennwhite@mastodon.social
@jvagle.me
Law professor | Privacy, Cybersecurity, National Security, Technology and Society | Veteran | There is music yet to play | https://tractatus.org
@thezdi.bsky.social
Trend Zero Day Initiative™ (ZDI) is a program designed to reward security researchers for responsibly disclosing vulnerabilities.
@josephhall.org
Astrophysicist turned advocate; guiding the globe to a safer, stronger Internet. Distinguished Technologist @internetsociety.bsky.social https://josephhall.org/
@joeuchill.bsky.social
Potential game show contestant. Former Axios, The Hill, Passcode. Founder of the Codebook cybersecurity newsletter. Once got lost in a Starbucks.
@ginger-hax.bsky.social
Computers. Heavy metal. Dark beers. Barbecue. Photography. USMC veteran. Motorsports. Signal - ginger_hax.69 #w00w00
@jessicalyons.bsky.social
Cybersecurity editor @theregister.com Contact me with tips: jessica.lyons@theregister.com or jess.825 on Signal Mama bear, book worm, outdoor lover, coffee and wine snob. PNW after decades in Santa Cruz but Blazers fan always.
@mikesager.net
Head of Security @ New Harbor Security, rock and roll, dad jokes. Fan of The National and The Nationals. Former CTO at EMILY’s List, and worked a lot of other places before that. msager.25 on Signal Half awake, in a fake empire.
@ajvicens.bsky.social
Cybersecurity correspondent at Reuters; former Mother Jones, CyberScoop. Will bore you with skateboarding, UFO lore or Denver Broncos minutiae on request. Signal: ajvicens.57, additional contact methods: https://tinyurl.com/47jc45h7
@ciaranm.bsky.social
“Cyber Security Ace” - Daily Star In reality: * Prof at Blavatnik School, Uni of Oxford * 1st head, UK National Cyber Security Centre * ex-Treasury, constitution & security official * adviser to cyber security companies * love crisps; hate tiki taka⚽️
@rondeibert.bsky.social
Director of The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy Author of Chasing Shadows https://chasingshadowsbook.ca/
@malanalysis.bsky.social
A #DFIR, #infosec, #dadjokes, #scifi, #books, #rpg, #ttx, #malware, elder #genx, and #gaming nerd. AKA an elder geek. Retired #leo. Current #infosec in #OT. Kindness first is useful but telling off toxic folks is on my response spectrum too.
@chrismvasq.bsky.social
hi chat, im a US-based freelance journalist covering tech and cyberspace // focus = h4x0rz + infrastructure + policy // priors: cyberscoop, e&e news, politico signal: chrismvasq.42 chrismvasq@proton.me https://tips.hushline.app/to/chrismvasq
@kevincollier.bsky.social
I cover digital threats for NBC News. Tip me! @kevincollier.01 on signal, kevin.collier@nbcuni.com. NYC, from West Virginia.
@couts.bsky.social
security & investigations editor at @WIRED.com, send tips and/or dog pics Signal: couts.01
@steved3.io
Father. Grandpa. Geek. Hacker. Former journalist. Security researcher. CMO @BSidesLV.org Member: Curated Intel
@malwarejake.bsky.social
Breaker of software, responder of incidents, IANS Faculty, VP R&D Hunter Strategy, Supreme Allied Commander of ANTIFA.
@mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip
Former biologist. Actual PhD in genetics. Security at https://aurora.tech, OS security teaching at https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu. Blog: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org Signal: @mjg.59 He/him
@mattburgess1.bsky.social
Security writer @wired.com Cybercrime, privacy, surveillance, and more. Signal: mattburgess.20 | Email: matt_burgess@wired.com
@blowdart.me
Security Curmudgeon for Microsoft .NET Do you really think work wants my social media opinions? Not nice, but kind - @medus4.com 🇮🇪 🇬🇧 🇺🇸
@greynoise.io
GreyNoise analyzes Internet background noise. Use GreyNoise to remove pointless security alerts, find compromised devices, or identify emerging threats.
@allanfriedman.bsky.social
SBOM Champion. Full service technocrat. Now at @CISAgov, formerly NTIA. Lapsed{engineer, academic, author}. Personal Account. Food, drink, dogs, SBOM
@iagox86.bsky.social
Principal Security Researcher at GreyNoise. https://skullsecurity.org Mostly post about work stuff, maybe some improv stuff and maybe even magic some day. Seattle-based (originally Canadian), queer, cybersecurity nerd. (He/him)
@snlyngaas.bsky.social
Cybersecurity reporter, CNN. Signal +1-202-355-8471. sean[dot]lyngaas@cnn[dot]com
@davemwilburn.bsky.social
Recovering infosec engineer, machine learning for infosec, sailor, news junkie, threat intel consumer, deep statist. All opinions are mine. Also see my account on Mastodon/Fediverse, @davemwilburn@infosec.exchange
@validhorizon.bsky.social
Thought Trailer, Cyber Threat Intel, DFIR. He/Him. Bucketing, sharing, and bacon-saving as a service. https://validhorizon.medium.com/
@boblord.bsky.social
Cautiously pessimistic, esp. about cyber things. The owls are not what they seem. 🗻🗻🦉🌲🪵 🍒🥧☕️🍩 🕵🏼♀️ 👍🏻 Also: 🔐🔑🔒
@taggart-tech.com
@mttaggart@infosec.exchange. Displaced Philly boy. Threat hunter. Educator. Dad. taggartinstitute.org wtfbins.wtf linktr.ee/mttaggart
@shadowserver.bsky.social
Our mission is to make the Internet more secure by bringing to light vulnerabilities, malicious activity and emerging threats. Join our Alliance! https://shadowserver.org/partner
@ntkramer.bsky.social
Experienced InfoSec | Elder Millennial | 💼 @GreyNoiseIO | I ask 'why?' a lot | Pro Oxford Comma | Fix it! | He/Him | #BLM | Views are my own. https://linktr.ee/glennthorpe