Urs Hengartner @uhengart.bsky.social CS prof at University of Waterloo. Interested in security and privacy.
The Citizen Lab @citizenlab.ca We are an academic research unit at the University of Toronto investigating novel threats to democracy, human rights, and global security in the digital ecosystem.
Nicholas Weaver @ncweaver.skerry-tech.com Researcher, Computer Security @ ICSI
Chief Mad Scientist @ Skerry Technologies
Putting the Science in "Mad Science"
Digital, Explainable, and (usually) Adversarial Systems
Looking for employment: CV is here https://skerry-tech.com/cv.html
he/him
Seny Kamara @senykamara.com I design encryption algorithms for a living but am a Hip Hop scholar at heart. Former CS professor at Brown & research scientist at Microsoft. I currently lead research at MongoDB. I think about how data, algorithms, power and culture intersect
evacide @evacide.bsky.social Director of Cybersecurity @eff.org
Co-founder of @stopstalkerware.bsky.social
These opinions are my own, not my employer's
I did a TED talk once
David Choffnes @proffnes.discuss.systems.ap.brid.gy Professor in Computer Science at @Northeastern. I work on privacy, IoT, networking, security, and mobile. Avid cyclist and amateur coffee roaster. He/him
[bridged from https://discuss.systems/@proffnes on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Steven Murdoch @steven.murdoch.is Professor of Security Engineering; Head of UCL Information Security Research Group @sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk; Director Open Rights Group. 🐘 https://mastodon.social/@sjmurdoch 🐦 @sjmurdoch 🌍 https://murdoch.is/
Arvind Narayanan @randomwalker.bsky.social Princeton computer science prof. I write about the societal impact of AI, tech ethics, & social media platforms. https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/
BOOK: AI Snake Oil. https://www.aisnakeoil.com/
Michelle Mazurek @mmazurek.bsky.social security, privacy, people
pointy-headed academic, phillies enjoyer
still tomorrow's gonna be another working day / just trying to get some rest
Eric Eide @ericeide.bsky.social Research Associate Professor, University of Utah Kahlert School of Computing • Personal account • Opinions my own, not employer's • RTs not endorsements
Apu Kapadia @apukapadia.bsky.social Professor of Computer Science at Indiana University Bloomington. Usable privacy and security, especially with online photo sharing.
Ben Zhao @ravenben.bsky.social Glaze, Nightshade, & projects to protect human creatives at University of Chicago. Professor @UChicagoCS, MIT TR-35 innovator, ACM Fellow, TIME 100/AI, TED/AI. Most of the time I post as @TheGlazeProject.bsky.social
Jaron Mink @jaronmink.bsky.social Asst. Prof. @ ASU | PI @ the http://HappyResearchLab.com | PhD from
UIUC
Secure Human-AI Interaction, Human Factors in Sec
@gannimo.bsky.social @gannimo.bsky.social
Andreas Zeller @andreaszeller.bsky.social Software researcher at https://cispa.de, working on #Fandango, #S3, #FuzzingBook, #DebuggingBook. Testing, debugging, analyzing, and protecting software for a better world. Find me at https://andreas-zeller.info/
Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org We're the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We're a nonprofit that fights for your privacy and free speech online. Find all of EFF's social media accounts at eff.org/social.
Joe Calandrino @jcalandrino.bsky.social
Somesh Jha @someshjha.bsky.social I am a professor in the computer sciences at UW-Madison. My technical interests in trustworthy ML, formal methods, and security.
My other interests are Indian classical music, mindfulness, tennis, and pickleball.
Daniel Gruss @gruss.cc Aka @lavados #InfoSec University Professor @ #TUGraz. #meltdown, #spectre, #rowhammer, cache attacks, sustainable security. Produced a side channel security sitcom. https://gruss.cc https://x.com/lavados https://infosec.exchange/@lavados
@lujobauer.bsky.social @lujobauer.bsky.social
Sven Bugiel @svebug.bsky.social Tenured Faculty at the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security | https://svenbugiel.de/- S saschafahl @saschafahl.bsky.social Faculty@CISPA; Empirical Security
Lorenzo Cavallaro @lcavallaro.bsky.social Pizza, Phrack, and Trustworthy AI for Systems Security at UCL Computer Science
Davide Balzarotti @balzarot.bsky.social Professor in Computer Security @EURECOM
Ex Defcon CTF organizer with @oooverflow
Nicolas Papernot @nicolaspapernot.bsky.social Security and Privacy of Machine Learning at UofT, Vector Institute, and Google 🇨🇦🇫🇷🇪🇺 Co-Director of Canadian AI Safety Institute (CAISI) Research Program at CIFAR. Opinions mine
Michael Schwarz @misc0110.bsky.social InfoSec Faculty @ #CISPA. Side-channel attacks. Exploiting microarchitectures. Discovering CPU vulnerabilities.
CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security @cispa.de Shape the future world.🚀
🔒Cybersecurity I 🫱🏻🫲🏼Privacy I 🤖Trustworthy AI
Privacy Policy and Legal Notice: https://cispa.de/en/linkinbio
Adriana Porter Felt @apf.bsky.social I like writing silly skeets, but that doesn't pay so I also make Google Chrome. mamá, Eng Director, volunteer at Second Harvest. 🇺🇲🇨🇷
Twitter: @__apf__
Emily Stark @estark.bsky.social Encryption, HTTPS, certificates, web security, security UX, software engineering and management, TMI about parenting. Opinions are my own.
billions of packets @justinesherry.bsky.social I'm a member of the imperial senate on a diplomatic mision to Alderaan.
Computer networking professor. 🇺🇲❤️🇵🇹, she/her, Dr. Sherry, Mamã, working at AS8!
www.justinesherry.com
Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social I teach cryptography at Johns Hopkins. https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com- D Stefan Savage @docsavage.bsky.social
Mary Ellen Zurko @mzurko.bsky.social CyberSecurity with an emphasis on human use, integration, and impacts. Matron Saint of Usable Security. The only "Mary Ellen Zurko" on the web.
Loris D'Antoni @lorisdanto.bsky.social Professor @ucsd & Scholar @CodeMetal. Helps people write code they can trust
Ian Miers @secparam.bsky.social UMD CS Prof. Security and applied cryptography.
Brendan Dolan-Gavitt @moyix.net AI researcher at XBOW. Security, RE, ML. PGP http://keybase.io/moyix/
Emery Berger @emeryberger.bsky.social Professor, Computer Science, UMass; Amazon Scholar. I work on programming languages & systems, among other things. http://PLASMA-UMass.org, http://github.com/plasma-umass, http://CSrankings.org, http://github.com/emeryberger. ACM Fellow.
Zakir Durumeric @zakird.com Internet Security, Trust, and Safety Researcher. Stanford CS Faculty, Censys Founder and Chief Scientist, ZMap Creator. https://zakird.com/
Chaz Lever @chazlever.com Security researcher & data nerd 🤓 | BBQ connoisseur 🍖 | Ex-Florida man now chilling in Atlanta, GA 🍑 | "I hack things and grill steaks."
Dave Levin @distributeddave.bsky.social Associate professor and CS Honors chair at Univ. of Maryland. Security researcher. Founder of breakerspace.io
Stefano Tessaro @stefanotessaro.bsky.social Professor at the University of Washington, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering @uwcse.bsky.social
Working on cryptography, theoretical computer science, and computer security.
https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~tessaro/
@gatechcyber.bsky.social @gatechcyber.bsky.social
ramakrishnansr.bsky.social @ramakrishnansr.bsky.social Assistant Professor in CSE @ucsc. @UMich PhD. Opinions my own.
AAUP @ UIUC @aaup-uiuc.bsky.social We are the AAUP chapter at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Learn more: https://aaup-ui.org/home
Giancarlo Pellegrino @gianko.bsky.social Faculty at CISPA.
Matt Blaze @mattblaze.org Scientist, safecracker, etc. McDevitt Professor of Computer Science and Law at Georgetown. So-called expert on election security and a few other things. Slow photographer. RF nerd. Occasionally blogs at https://mattblaze.org/blog
Serge Egelman @v0max.bsky.social Scientist. Dir. of Usable Security & Privacy at the International Computer Science Institute (icsi.berkeley.edu). Founder, AppCensus (appcensus.io). All opinions are those of his employer(s), and not his own.
https://www.guanotronic.com/~serge/
Alexandros Kapravelos @kapravelos.com Head of Research @socket.dev
Professor @ncstate.bsky.social
systems and software security 💡
Paul Pearce @pearce.bsky.social Security Person. UC Irvine Professor. I miss old Twitter. Formerly Georgia Tech and UC Berkeley. https://pearce.prof
Deepak Kumar @kumarde.bsky.social I'm a faculty member in Computer Science & Engineering @UCSD, a playwright, a composer, and a lyricist.
The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social AI is not inevitable. We DAIR to imagine, build & use AI deliberately.
Website: http://dair-institute.org
Mastodon: @DAIR@dair-community.social
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dair-institute/
Annual Computer Security Applications Conference @acsacconf.bsky.social One of the longest-running computer security conferences, more infos at: https://www.acsac.org
This year‘s edition:
Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) ACSAC 2025 | December 8-12, 2025 | Waikiki, Hawaii, USA
Gianluca Stringhini @gianlucastringhini.com Associate Professor at BU. Cybersecurity and Cybersafety. Come for the memes, stay for the science. Skeets are my own
Nicolas Christin @nc2y.bsky.social Prof. at Carnegie Mellon University. Computer security, online crime, and assorted online seediness. Reformed(?) hacker. Economic migrant.
📍 Pittsburgh, PA, mostly
🕸️ https://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/nicolasc
Ben Stock @benstock.bsky.social Tenured Faculty @c-i-s-p-a.bsky.social Helmholtz Center for Information Security
Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social Researcher of online rumors & disinformation. Former basketball player. Prof at University of Washington, HCDE. Co-founder of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Personal account: Views may not reflect those of my employer.
Clémentine Maurice @bloody-tangerine.bsky.social Researcher at CNRS. Feminist. I work on microarchitectural security.
https://cmaurice.fr
Lorrie Cranor @lorriecranor.bsky.social
@carmelatroncoso.bsky.social @carmelatroncoso.bsky.social
Nikita Borisov @nikitabear.bsky.social
Jeremy Epstein @jeremyepstein.bsky.social Former WH OSTP privacy guy. NSF SaTC (cybersecurity and privacy) lead for a decade, now trying to figure out what's next. Dad, grandfather. Personal account, nothing official here.
Miranda Wei @mirandawei.bsky.social recent @uwcse phd grad. digital security, privacy, safety, and how all of the above are sociotechical. she/they.
Collins Munyendo @collinsmunyendo.bsky.social Postdoc at UC Berkeley and Incoming Asst Prof of CS at NUS
Human factors in computer security and privacy
https://collinsmunyendo.github.io/
@earlence.bsky.social @earlence.bsky.social (Assistant) Professor at @UCSanDiego. I hacked a Stop sign once, and it is now in a museum. Also hacked a bicycle. I mostly spend my time building stuff though.- Y Yoshi Kohno @yoshikohno.bsky.social Computer security & privacy research, Georgetown University, he/him
Vasileios Kemerlis @vkemerlis.bsky.social Professor @Brown CS. Brown Hat. Research on systems and software security. 🏴☠️🇬🇷🇺🇸 https://cs.brown.edu/~vpk
Chris Kanich @kaytwo.org I get unreasonably excited about Chicago, cybersecurity, education, and local impact.
https://kaytwo.org
Franzi Roesner @franziroesner.bsky.social Professor (computer security and privacy, broadly construed) in the Allen School of CSE at the University of Washington. Also spend my time on parenting, reading, exercising, and writing poetry. She/her.
https://www.franziroesner.com
PET Symposium @pet-symposium.bsky.social Official account of the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium and the Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies. Next event: PETS 2026
Website: petsymposium.org/
Mastodon: @PET_Symposium@infosec
Adam Aviv @adamaviv.bsky.social Asoc. Prof. of Computer Science at the George Washington University. Mixing Baltimore and Academic... blueskyes?!
Zubair Shafiq @zubair-shafiq.bsky.social prof @ucdavis; privacy + measurement researcher; outdoor enthusiast; anda-shami lover