Usenix WOOT Conference on Offensive Technologies @wootsecurity.bsky.social WOOT aims to present a broad picture of offense and its contributions, bringing together researchers and practitioners in all areas of computer security.
Co-located with USENIX Security Symposium'26 in Baltimore,MD on
August 10–11, 2026
UCSB Computer Science Department @ucsb-cs.bsky.social
@thuanpv.bsky.social @thuanpv.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Cyber Secutity at @UniMelb & ARC DECRA Fellow. Prev @MonashInfotech & @NUSComputing . (Fuzz) Testing enthusiast.
15/10 Foundation @15outof10.org @weratedogs.com | making shelter dogs with medical and behavioral needs more adoptable ❤️🩹 https://links.15outof10.org
paraacha @talhaparacha.com Postdoc at Ruhr University Bochum. Research in network measurement and security. Experiences at Northeastern, TU Wien, Meta, Cloudflare, EPFL, Rutgers, NUST-SEECS
samy k͓͓͓͓͓͓͓͓͓͓͓͓͓͓͓amkar͛͛͛͛͛͛͛͛͛͛͛͛͛͛͛ @sa.my think bad, do good. | https://sa.my
Sachin @iambotman.bsky.social
Network Operations Center RUB @noc.rub.de Hier informiert das RUB-NOC über aktuelle Neuigkeiten und Ereignisse rund ums Datennetz der @ruhr-uni-bochum.de
Christian Mainka @chearix.de Web and Data Security Researcher @uni-wuppertal.bsky.social
Topics: SOP, XS-Leaks, SSO, OAuth, OpenID, PDF, ODF
(Private Account)
christianmainka.de
Rishab Nithyanand @rishabn.bsky.social Internet measurement, tech policy, and privacy researcher. Asst. Prof. at UIowa.
Stefan Nagy @snagycs.bsky.social Faculty @utah.edu.
My lab hunts bugs: https://futures.cs.utah.edu/bugs.
Mastodon: snagy@infosec.exchange
Twitter: @snagycs
Karola Marky @yon-juni.bsky.social Professor CS@RUB, Digital Sovereignty
Pizzahax @pizzahax.bsky.social Insert funny, cheeky pun here | Professor of Distributed Systems at Rhine-Waal University of Applied Science
🧈🍕👨💻
Buitengebieden @buitengebieden.bsky.social You will know me.. I’m Sander from the Netherlands
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Robert Merget (ic0ns) @ic0nz1.bsky.social I build tools to analyze implementations cryptographic protocols with a special heart for TLS and related protocols <3
Marcus Brinkmann @lambdafu.bsky.social I'm a tempura shrimp and you can't catch me! | 🐢 Terrapin Attack | 🦙 ALPACA Attack | 🦝 Raccoon Attack | 😈 DEMONS Attack | @lambdafu@mastodon.social
@mbr.sh @mbr.sh Security Researcher @IBMResearch
Opinions are mine only.
FluxFingers @fluxfingers.net Participating in Capture the Flag security competitions representing @ruhr-uni-bochum.de since 2007. Also, organizers of annual Hack.lu CTF.
Web: https://FluxFingers.net
Also on Twitter and https://infosec.exchange/@fluxfingers
@tregua.bsky.social @tregua.bsky.social
Vasileios Kemerlis @vkemerlis.bsky.social Professor @Brown CS. Brown Hat. Research on systems and software security. 🏴☠️🇬🇷🇺🇸 https://cs.brown.edu/~vpk
Fabio Pierazzi @fbpierazzi.bsky.social Associate Professor in Information Security at University College London. Working on Trustworthy AI for Systems Security. Opinions are my own.
DEF CON @defcon.bsky.social The world’s premier hacker conference. Serving the global hacker community since 1993.
Defcon.org
Forum.defcon.org
Defcon.social
Daniel Klischies @dklischies.bsky.social Firmware/OS/Cellular Security Research @ruhr-uni-bochum.de
Fabio Pagani @pagabuc.bsky.social
Thomas Eisenbarth @tom-crypt.bsky.social 🔒 Professor of IT Security @ University of Luebeck
💡 Research in systems security, applied cryptography, and side channels
🌐 More info: its.uni-luebeck.de
degrigis @degrigis.bsky.social Computer Security PhD student@UCSB Seclab | Binary tamer | hacking@shellphish
Clémentine Maurice @bloody-tangerine.bsky.social Researcher at CNRS. Feminist. I work on microarchitectural security.
https://cmaurice.fr
Ruhr-Universität Bochum @ruhr-uni-bochum.de BUILT TO CHANGE. Unsere Haltung. Unsere Zukunft.
Willkommen auf dem offiziellen BlueSky-Profil der #RuhrUniBochum!
🗞️ RUB-News: https://news.rub.de/
📌 Impressum: http://rub.de/de/impressum
📌 Datenschutz: https://www.rub.de/de/datenschutz
Pietro Frigo @pfrigo.bsky.social Product Security @Qualcomm. Ex PhD @VUsec
Giulio De Pasquale @peperunas.bsky.social Security Researcher @ | (very former) CTF player | Drummer and a bit of a bass player | Most importantly, Doom fanboy
Federico Maggi @phretor.bsky.social Cybersecurity engineer, researcher, and advisor with broad technical and scientific experience on designing, analyzing, and testing security-critical systems. 🔗 https://trustial.org
strufe @strufe.bsky.social privacy prof at KIT and CeTI/TU Dresden
Felipe Novais @felipenovais.bsky.social Hackademic by heart. Graduate Researcher at @ruhrunibochum@x.com
I love building, breaking, and fixing technology.
Markus Donko-Huber @nysos.net Information Security & Privacy // Vienna/AT
https://nysos.net
dragosr @dragostech.bsky.social Autonomous Carbon Based LLM with 42 years of tuning on Information Attack and Defense.
Host of CanSecWest, and PacSec.
Security audits, code, IR, LLM, red team consulting.
Specialize in Firmware, and RF.
VA7MOV
Silverfoxy @imsilverfoxy.bsky.social Senior Systems Eng at Cloudflare (Bot Management) - PhD from Stony Brook University (Pragsec Lab)
Hunting bots, building ML models, interested in web security
Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. @informatik.eurosky.social Die #GI setzt sich seit mehr als 50 Jahren für die Förderung der #Informatik in allen Lebensbereichen ein. #WirSindInformatik
Marco Squarcina @minimalblue.bsky.social Senior Scientist @TU Wien / Web & Mobile Security / #drumandbass DJ
🚩 with @mhackeroni.bsky.social We_0wn_Y0u kukhofhackerei Team Austria
🔗 https://minimalblue.com/
Manuel 'HonkHase' Atug @honkhase.de 20yrs Sec @CCC, @GeraffelV @cbase @loadev @AG_KRITIS #hacking #Ethik #KRITIS #Cyberresilienz, working at @HiSolutions http://Threema.id/X9H873XJ
Mastodon: https://chaos.social/@HonkHase
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/manuel-honkhase-atug-820b27241
Zakir Durumeric @zakird.com Internet Security, Trust, and Safety Researcher. Stanford CS Faculty, Censys Founder and Chief Scientist, ZMap Creator. https://zakird.com/
Gordon Fraser @gofraser.bsky.social
Christian Wressnegger @chwress.bsky.social Professor in Computer Security at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
https://intellisec.de/chris
Daniel Arp @darpsky.bsky.social Assistant Professor at TU Wien
Machine Learning & Security
Nico Schiller @nschllr.bsky.social Security researcher and PhD student @ CISPA and Ruhr University Bochum
Carlotta Tagliaro @pseudorandomico.bsky.social Postdoc @ TU Wien 🇦🇹 || 🇮🇹 || IoT security, privacy and tennis enthusiast
Boris Köpf @socialboris.bsky.social Researcher at Microsoft Azure
boriskoepf.de
Sven Bugiel @svebug.bsky.social Tenured Faculty at the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security | https://svenbugiel.de/
Andrea Fioraldi @andreafioraldi.bsky.social Cyber Response Italian Supercazzola Technology Officer at
@mhackeroni Inc. Writing your favourite fuzz testing tools with
@aflplusplus. Security research at .
Cornelius Aschermann @is-eqv.bsky.social Fuzzing & stuff https://hexgolems.com
@nbars.bsky.social @nbars.bsky.social
aurelsec @aurelsec.bsky.social Hackademic at S3@eurecom
Anthony @darkfloyd1216.bsky.social VXRL/VXCON/Blackhat Asia & USA review board/Browser vulnerability & exploitation
Manuel Wiesinger @mmap.at Operating System Engineer @ https://unikraft.io
PhD candidate @ https://www.vusec.net
JinBlack @jinblack.bsky.social CTF Player @towerofhanoi and @mhackeroni | Security Researcher | Coach @CyberTeamItaly | Coach Team Europe | Space Security
Alexander Klink @alech.de Senior SecEng @ AWS Clean Rooms. While I do _work_ for AWS, I do not _speak_ for them.
Urs Hengartner @uhengart.bsky.social CS prof at University of Waterloo. Interested in security and privacy.
Shweta Shinde @shwetashinde.bsky.social Assistant Professor at ETH Zurich, Security Researcher.
shwetashinde.org
David Oswald @sublevado.bsky.social Live as if today's yesterday was the day after yesterday's tomorrow.
Shaanan Cohney @shaananc.bsky.social Computer Security, Privacy, and Public Policy. Deputy Head of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne. Former Fellow for Sen. Ron Wyden.
Likes teaching. Likes research. Likes Singing.
https://cohney.info
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
Marcel Böhme @mboehme.bsky.social Software Security @ MPI for Security and Privacy
PhD @NUS, Dipl.-Inf. @TUDresden
Research Group: http://mpi-softsec.github.io
Giancarlo Pellegrino @gianko.bsky.social Faculty at CISPA.
Carl Smith @rwx.page Security @Google, Personal Account.
Moritz Schloegel @mu00d8.bsky.social Faculty @CISPA Helmholtz Center doing software security, program analysis, and fuzzing
Previously at SEFCOM lab @ASU and @RUB
Alexandros Kapravelos @kapravelos.com Head of Research @socket.dev
Professor @ncstate.bsky.social
systems and software security 💡
Johannes Kinder @jkinder.bsky.social Professor @ LMU Munich
Security, Program Analysis, Machine Learning
Aleks @fuzzyaleks.bsky.social Fuzzy as in logic
Martin Henze @henze.bsky.social Securing industrial networks, one bit at a time. Assistant professor at RWTH Aachen University and research group leader at Fraunhofer FKIE.
Ghassan Karame @ghassankarame.bsky.social Professor of Computer Science at RUB/HGI/CASA, Decentralized Security
Annika Goedde @annikacg.bsky.social Digitalization Research: Science Communication, PR & Public Outreach I Center for Advanced Internet Studies #CAIS, Bochum
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/
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
Thomas Ptacek @sockpuppet.org Full of passionate intensity.
Ingrid Brodnig @brodnig.bsky.social Journalistin & Autorin | Fokus: Hass im Netz, Desinformation, digitale Gesellschaft | Bücher: https://www.brodnig.org/bucher/
Michalis Polychronakis @mikepo.bsky.social Professor, CS Department, Stony Brook University | research on network and system security, network monitoring and measurement, online privacy | https://www.cs.stonybrook.edu/~mikepo/
Nils Fleischhacker @cryptomaeher.bsky.social Cryptographer working on both applied and theoretical cryptography. Currently Assistant Professor for Cryptography at Ruhr University Bochum. Opinions probably someone else's. he/him
Eike Kiltz @kiltz.bsky.social
Peter Schwabe @cryptojedi.bsky.social Researcher in cryptographic engineering at MPI-SP.
Brendan Dolan-Gavitt @moyix.net AI researcher at XBOW. Security, RE, ML. PGP http://keybase.io/moyix/
Ben Stock @benstock.bsky.social Tenured Faculty @c-i-s-p-a.bsky.social Helmholtz Center for Information Security
Konrad Rieck 🌈 @rieck.mlsec.org Machine Learning and Security,
Professor of Computer Science at TU Berlin,
Martina Lindorfer @lindorfer.in Associate Professor Security & Privacy @ TU Wien. Key Researcher @ SBA Research (she/her). Avid Snacker. Professional Traveller. Mainly Lurker.
🖤 🦖🦙🐈🐶🦝📸🧩✈️🧟♀️
Martin Johns @datenkeller.bsky.social Foo und (!) bar.
Danny Y. Huang @danny-huang.bsky.social NYU professor in usable security & privacy - https://hdanny.org/
Adrian Dabrowski @atrox.at Security, privacy, cellular, living in clouds; night-owl; PostDoc CISPA; former UCI, SBA, TU Wien, iSeclab. My own opinions. May contain sarcasm.
Gianluca Stringhini @gianlucastringhini.com Associate Professor at BU. Cybersecurity and Cybersafety. Come for the memes, stay for the science. Skeets are my own
Perri Adams @perrib.us Fmr DARPA Program Manager | Fmrly Organizing DEF CON CTF with Nautilus | RPISEC Alumna | Personal account, opinions my own, RT ≠ endorsement
WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com Your Only Source For Professional Dog Ratings
nonprofit: @15outof10.org ❤️🩹
links.weratedogs.com
Paul Pearce @pearce.bsky.social Security Person. UC Irvine Professor. I miss old Twitter. Formerly Georgia Tech and UC Berkeley. https://pearce.prof
Álvaro Cárdenas Mora @chibchacum.bsky.social Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz
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
Adam Aviv @adamaviv.bsky.social Asoc. Prof. of Computer Science at the George Washington University. Mixing Baltimore and Academic... blueskyes?!
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/- D Stefan Savage @docsavage.bsky.social
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
@mikko @mikko.bsky.social Fighting malicious use of technology.
John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social Chasing digital badness. Senior Researcher at Citizen Lab, but words here are mine.
Christopher Soghoian @christopher.soghoian.net Work: Senior Advisor for Privacy and Cybersecurity, Office of Senator Ron Wyden.
Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social Journalist, currently at The New York Times. I cover privacy, technology, A.I., and the strange times we live in. Named after the Led Zeppelin song. Author of YOUR FACE BELONGS TO US. (Yes, in my head it will always be All Your Face Are Belong To Us)