Lily Hay Newman @lhn.bsky.social Security reporter for WIRED Magazine. she/her/my man. Signal +1 (347) 722-1347
Daniel Gordon @validhorizon.bsky.social Thought Trailer, Cyber Threat Intel, DFIR. He/Him. Bucketing, sharing, and bacon-saving as a service. https://validhorizon.medium.com/
Sean Lyngaas @snlyngaas.bsky.social Cybersecurity reporter, CNN. Signal +1-202-355-8471 or SNLyng.11. sean[dot]lyngaas@cnn[dot]com|slyngaas@proton[dot]me
Allan @allanfriedman.bsky.social SBOM Champion. Paranoid about supply chains of all kinds. Former full-service technocrat at CISA, NTIA. Lapsed{engineer, academic, author}. Now wandering the world doing acts of infosec-goodness, & occasionally getting paid for it. Poster of food pics.
GreyNoise @greynoise.io GreyNoise analyzes Internet background noise. Use GreyNoise to remove pointless security alerts, find compromised devices, or identify emerging threats.
Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social Security writer @wired.com
Cybercrime, privacy, surveillance, and more.
Signal: mattburgess.20 | Email: matt_burgess@wired.com
Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip Former biologist. Actual PhD in genetics. Security, OS security teaching at https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu.
Blog: https://codon.org.uk/~mjg59/blog
Signal: @mjg.59
He/him
Opinions expressed here are mine, not my employer's
SteveD3 (Steve Ragan) @steved3.io Father. Grandpa. Geek. Hacker. Former journalist. Security researcher. CMO @BSidesLV.org Member: Curated Intel
Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social Security & Investigations Director at @WIRED.com. Send tips and/or dog pics.
Signal: couts.01
Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social I cover digital threats for NBC News. Tip me! @kevincollier.01 on signal, kevin.collier@nbcuni.com. NYC, from West Virginia.
Christian Vasquez @chrismvasq.com 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
https://tips.hushline.app/to/chrismvasq
Vern McCandlish @malanalysis.bsky.social A #DFIR, #infosec, #dadjokes, #scifi, #books, #rpg, #ttx, #malware, elder #genx, and #gaming nerd. AKA an elder geek. Retired #leo. Retired from #infosec in #OT now too.
Kindness first is useful but telling off toxic folks is on my response spectrum too.
Ron Deibert @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/
Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social prostrate at the feet of the machine gods
AJ Vicens @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
Mike Sager @mikesager.net CISO @ New Harbor
Security, rock and roll, dad jokes. Fan of The National and The Nationals. Former CTO at EMILY’s List.
msager.25 on Signal
Half awake, in a fake empire.
I have friends everywhere.
He/Him
mike@crabstrike.com
Jessica Lyons @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.
Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social @0xMatt on Twitter
Rescue, DFIR, Cello and Birds
📎🇺🇦🌻 ginger-hax🌻🇺🇦🎃 @ginger-hax.bsky.social Dark beers. Dark whiskeys. Fast music. Fast cars.
Computers. BBQ. Photography. USMC veteran.
🫥Signal - ginger_hax.69
rh;pd
#w00w00
Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social Potential game show contestant.
Former Axios, The Hill, Passcode. Founder of the Codebook cybersecurity newsletter. Once got lost in a Starbucks.
Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD @josephhall.org Astrophysicist turned advocate; guiding the globe to a safer, stronger Internet. Distinguished Technologist @internetsociety.org, https://josephhall.org/, (former CDT, NYU, Princeton CITP, Berkekey iSchool/Astro)
TrendAI Zero Day Initiative @thezdi.bsky.social TrendAI Zero Day Initiative™ (ZDI) is a program designed to reward security researchers for responsibly disclosing vulnerabilities.
Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me Law professor | Privacy, AI*, and Technology & Society | Veteran | Offering bespoke mentor-mentee relationships | There is music yet to play | https://tractatus.org
Kenn White @kennwhite.bsky.social cryptography • neuro • cloud • biscuits
ORD-DCA-NYC-BCN ✈️
kennwhite@mastodon.social
nsqe @nsqe.bsky.social Head of Privacy @Incode. 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
Riana @riana.bsky.social Tech policy researcher at Stanford. Former litigator. Anger is an energy. Dum spiro spero. she/her
Jennifer Granick @granick.bsky.social Personal account. Former ACLU lawyer. From New Jersey. Living in San Francisco. New College of Florida alum. Newfie owner.
wendy knox everette @wendyck.bsky.social Startup CISO. BSidesLV Lockpick. Hacker lawyer. Amzn & Google alum, USCG wife, Wellesley, GMU Law. IAAL but IANYL.
Justin Schuh @justinschuh.com Back in Chicago as a stay-at-home dad and small business owner. Expect some infosec/privacy/safety, 3D printing, and politics.
infosec.exchange/@jschuh
Defunct: twitter.com/justinschuh
Damien Miller @damienmiller.bsky.social debugging, v: the process of inserting printf statements into code until one's errors reveal themselves
Thomas Rid @ridt.bsky.social @ridt on X
Active Measures, LLC @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.
signal to noise//rel fvey, nato @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.
Micah Schaffer @micahsch.bsky.social
obscure - cDc 🅅 @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
tweety fish @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
DilDog 🅅 @dildog.l0pht.com Tech Dysangelist
cDc/hack.xxx/Veilid
Support Veilid! Badge: 🅅 www.veilid.com
Merch at: @hack.xxx
he/him/"hey buddy"
Jun34u @jun34u.bsky.social Alaskan in Los Angeles. Chaotic idealist.
Hacker, Writer, and Game Theorist
cDc Cultist
Forever Script Kiddie
She/They 🏳️🌈🏴☠️
@lodrina.bsky.social @lodrina.bsky.social "liberal arts section of the computer underground" -j. menn
Rich Mogull @rmogull.com Cloud security, hacker, run/bike/drown, TK11940 in the 501st, itinerant disaster paramedic, private pilot, and other stuff. @rmogull on Signal
Chief Analyst at CSA. CEO of Securosis. Both totally made up titles.
https://slaw.securosis.com
Richard Johnson @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
Luca @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
Russell Devine @rjmd.bsky.social 💼 Cybersecurity 📀 Forensics & Response
All opinions are from a southern right whale I met off the coast of Tasmania 🐋
Suzanne Smalley @suzannesmalley.bsky.social Reporter covering digital privacy and cybersecurity policy for The Record. Mom. Pub trivia queen. Crossword enthusiast. Literary fiction connoisseur. Idiosyncratic. Signal: Suzanne.236 Email: suzanne.smalley@therecord.media.
Gerald Benischke @beny23.github.io Maker, breaker and fixer of software. Adventures in #appsec and #agile: beny23.github.io he/him
Jamie Brummell @jamieb.com Dad • Gamer • Humanist • InfoSec • Cyber • Founder & CTO @socura.co.uk • MDR / SOC • Detection Engineering • DFIR
🌐 jamieb.com
📍 Buckinghamshire, UK
shellsharks @shellsharks.com Infosec researcher | more about me @ https://shellsharks.com
@shellsharks@shellsharks.social on Mastodon
Nicole Hoffman @threathuntergirl.bsky.social Friendly Neighborhood CTI Analyst | Children’s Book Author | Lego builder | Gamer | She/Her
The Dustin Childs @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
Costin G. Raiu @craiu.bsky.social Romanian antihacker from another planet. #threatintel #yara #chess #taekwondo black belt
Motto: "One reboot a day keeps the implant away"
omgmike @mikecherry.bsky.social “A riot is the language of the unheard.”
- MLK
Staff ProdSec Engineer @ place
Joe Warminsky @jwarminsky.bsky.social News Editor at The Record: @therecordmedia.bsky.social
[ Tired of bios ]
[ Often thinking about music ]
[ Etc. ]
Cynthia Brumfield @metacurity.com DC resident and 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.
Micah Lee @micahflee.com Doing what I can to keep activists, journalists, and researchers safe and productive — writing at https://micahflee.com — author of HACKS, LEAKS, AND REVELATIONS https://hacksandleaks.com — signal: micah.01
Matteo @ hacking and cracking @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)
Hexadecim8 @hexadecim8.com Author | spooky trans athlete | Linux behavioral threat researcher | never hacked nobody
https://hexadecim8.com
Supriya @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
Christopher Vega @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 🦆
Charles @charles.dardaman.com AI | Hacking | Security | Malware | Founder/CTO (acq.) | CS PhD @UT_Dallas
Sergiu Gatlan @serghei.bsky.social Cybersecurity/tech reporter @BleepingComputer / serghei.ro
Ollie Whitehouse @ollieatnowhere.bsky.social CTO at the UK's National Cyber Security Center
Martin Matishak @martinmatishak.bsky.social Senior Cybersecurity Reporter at The Record from Recorded Future News. Send tips to martin.matishak@therecord.media. Signal: mmatishak.80
Martin Shelton @mshelton.bsky.social Security therapist. Deputy director of digital security @freedom.press.
Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@mshelton
Digisec newsletter: https://freedom.press/newsletters
Alexander Martin @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
📱 Signal: AlexanderMartin.79
Leigh Honeywell @hypatia.bsky.social Security, diversity, housing, Canadian stuff 🇨🇦. Cofounder and CEO of @tallpoppy.bsky.social; more at leighhoneywell.com
Chris Wysopal @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.
David DiMolfetta @ddimolfetta.bsky.social Nextgov/FCW cybersecurity + intelligence reporter. Tips: ddimolfetta@govexec.com Signal: @ djd.99 X/Twitter: @ddimolfetta
James Pearson @pearswick.press Visual Investigations Journalist at @Reuters.com, via Hanoi, Seoul, Pyongyang and cyberspace. Now in London.
“A bum who wrote an ignominious jumble of stories”
- North Korea ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆
📞Signal ID: pearswick.01
💻: pearswick.press
hakan @hatr.bsky.social reporter covering cyber (both crime and state-sponsored) for Der Spiegel and ZDF, short overview at https://linktr.ee/hakantanriverdi, Signal: hakan.25
Frank Bajak @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#
Andrew Case @attrc.bsky.social Volatility Core developer, Dir. of Research Volexity, LSU Cyber
David Oxley @oxley.io Interim head of information security at Anduril Industries. @CitizenLab.ca Research Fellow. Former federal agent. Fan of space, books, cyberpunk, sci-fi, espionage history, and storms. Personal account. 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 #ThreatIntel
Storm chasing 📸 🌪️: @wxdox.com
Avani @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 #cw2026.
https://linktr.ee/circumviso
Chris Sistrunk @chrissistrunk.bsky.social Husband, Dad, ⚡EE⚡, OT Security,
OT Practice Leader @Mandiant.com,
Ex-Entergy 💡, BEER-ISAC #002, LaTech Alum
#BBQ, Bourbon, Mississippi Sippers 🥃🦟, weirdo, klugemeister, #sockstatus, #dadjokes #DJaaS #NAPCON Keynote
📍 Mississippi, y'all
Keith Chu @keithchu.bsky.social Comms for Sen. Wyden of Oregon but takes are my own. Guinea pig friend, kid dad, soccer enthusiast, seattle sports, KTBFFH.
Gravity always wins
Martin Untersinger @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
Winnona @winnona.bsky.social @DistrictCon Founder. Hacker and attorney. @CyberStatecraft / @BelferCenter fellow, ex-Google threat research. Dog mom. Opinions=my own 👩🏻💻
DistrictCon @districtcon.bsky.social A new DC hacker conference: Bringing together builders, breakers, and fixers to do cool shit.
Feb. 6-7, 2027
districtcon.org
John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social Chasing digital badness. Senior Researcher at Citizen Lab, but words here are mine.
Sam Sabin @samsabin.bsky.social Axios cybersecurity reporter, taking it day by day ✨ | 📩: sam.sabin@axios dot com, signal: SamSabin.01 (no pitches!), she/her
Maggie Miller @maggiemiller.bsky.social Cybersecurity reporter for Politico based in DC. Also history, dog, and good TexMex taco nerd.
mmiller@politico.com, DM for Signal
Adam Shostack @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
Jenna McLaughlin @jennamclaughlin.bsky.social NPR Correspondent covering technology and national security.
Send me a tip: Text JennaMcLaughlin.54 on Signal from personal (nonwork) devices.
Daryna Antoniuk @darynant.bsky.social Cybersecurity Reporter at Recorded Future News. Ex at The Kyiv Independent/Forbes/The Kyiv Post
📍Kyiv, Ukraine
TomNomNom @tomnomnom.com Computer booper and food enthusiast. He/him.
Deviant Ollam ツ @deviantollam.bsky.social Philadelphian in Cascadia. Vociferous champion for Oxford commas, two spaces after a period, and ellipses. I break into buildings. 🔓
"Even if the world were ending tomorrow, I would still plant a tree." 🌲
(he/they)
Kevin Beaumont @doublepulsar.com cybersecurity weather man. scanning the horizons for cloudy cyber. Expert at nothing except computer rubbish. Anti-ransomware since 2015.
Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com I am eminently qualified to speak from experience about a variety of dumpster fires.
ICS DFIR at Dragos, martial artist, marksman, humanist, level 14 Neutral Good rogue, USAF retired. I post *very serious* things about infosec. Thoughts my own. Enby. 🏳️🌈
UK_Daniel_Card @mrr3b00t.bsky.social
Phillip Wylie @phillipwylie.bsky.social Offensive Security Professional | Phillip Wylie Show Podcast Host | The Pentester Blueprint coauthor | TribeOfHackers Red Team | https://linktr.ee/phillipwylie
garethr @garethr.bsky.social VP Product @snyksec. @openpolicyagent Conftest maintainer. Developer, designer, product. Open source geek. Devops Weekly. @gdsteam alum. he/him.
Alyssa Miller 🦄👩✈️ @alyssam-infosec.com Hacker, CISO, and commercial pilot. Certified Bluesky Elder. Author and International Speaker, Chief advocate of #DoBetterBeBetter
Compassion and empathy are traits in short supply but necessary to make this world a better place.
alyssasec.com
d0nut @d0nut.dev 🦀 Rust + Security 🔑
Michael Skelton @codingo.com VP of Security Operations at Bugcrowd, Security Content @ http://youtube.com/codingo, tools @ http://github.com/codingo. SecTalks and BSides Gold Coast co-organizer - He/Him
Daniel Cuthbert @dcuthbert.bsky.social Ageing hacker, long time documentary photographer. Black Hat Review board. Now sitting on numerous government cyber security boards so I guess that means I’ve grown up right?
LiveOverflow 🔴 @liveoverflow.bsky.social wannabe hacker... he/him
🌱 grow your hacking skills https://hextree.io
James Kettle @jameskettle.com Director of Research at @portswigger.net
Also known as albinowax
Portfolio: https://jameskettle.com/
Alethe @alethe.bsky.social ‘Uh-Lee-th’ | Bishop Fox 🦊 Red Team | DEF CON Goon & Black Badge Hall of Fame | DEF CON Social Engineering CTF Winner 2019 | Physical Pentester | IVR Pentester | IR Tabletop King 👑
Safa 🇿🇦 in NorCal 🇺🇸 - Fish 🐠 Nerd - Jeep Girl
Justin Elze @handle.invalid CTO @TrustedSec.com | Former Optiv/SecureWorks/Accuvant Labs/Redspin | Race cars