Cold Turkey @getcoldturkey.com The toughest distraction blocker for Windows and macOS!
Cahoots Workshop @cahoots.nz The community space exclusively for women and gender diverse folks where we empower ourselves through building, fixing and making.
www.cahoots.nz
AmandaGPT @zerotrustbarbie.bsky.social ⚠️ Access Denied by Default ⚠️
Infosec's least favorite person💁♀️🔏
Identifies as a problem 👀 🤷♀️
Pro Internet Troll 🧌🔍
Opinions are my own. 🗣🎙
Viewer discretion is advised. 👀📺
bubbe yaga @ellearmageddon.bsky.social i’m not a girl, not interested in being polite or cisgender. jewish, anarchist, still punk, in my daddy era.
this is not a place of honor.
no highly esteemed thoughts are skeeted here.
ngl.link/armageddon1312
don’t explain, you’ll only make it worse
Hazard @datgreenmonstah.bsky.social Animal and paleoartist | any pronouns | ceiling crocodile obsessed | love me some animal anatomy/physiology and behavior/symbolism|
🚫NFT/AI🚫
Kawaiicon @kawaiicon.bsky.social New Zealand's cute infosec con (& book publishers) ✨
October 30-31, 2026 in Te Whanganui-a-Tara (Wellington, New Zealand)
Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com Security editor, TechCrunch
Signal: zackwhittaker.1337
My stories: techcrunch.com/author/zack-whittaker
My newsletter/blog: this.weekinsecurity.com
LaurieWired @lauriewired.bsky.social researcher @google; serial complexity unpacker
ex @ msft & aerospace
Autumn Nash 🎃👻💀🖤 @withenoughcoffee.bsky.social 👩🏾💻🌮🍩💻 🌙🪬🧿Lover of nerd jokes, tacos & ☕️Coffee • Mom • 📚 Reader• Advocates • OpenSource• DevOps• Linux• Security • 🎙Speaker • Java • Databases• MilSpouseCoders Thoughts are my own she/her
https://www.fafo.fm
https://www.withenoughcoffee.com
Anam0x @anam0x.bsky.social Associate Consultant @SpecterOps
Adversary Simulation
Active Directory | Web Apps | Social Engineering | Physical Security
SpecterOps @specterops.io Creators of BloodHound | Experts in Adversary Tradecraft | Leaders in Identity Attack Path Management
bEA @vestigialhe.art Tanz mit mir den Galgentanz!
McDoogie @papadoogie.bsky.social Comics, Cybersecurity and Hockey….. kind of a nerdy jock!
Lystena @lystena.bsky.social team red -> team blue
connoisseur of "how hard is it really?" consequences 
BSides Canberra @bsidescbr.bsky.social 24-26th September 2026
https://bsidescbr.com.au/
Patrick Gray @patrick.risky.biz https://risky.biz/
Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social Berkeley professor, former Secretary of Labor. Co-founder of @inequalitymedia.bsky.social and @imcivicaction.bsky.social.
Substack: http://robertreich.substack.com
Buy my new book: https://sites.prh.com/reich
Visit my website: https://rbreich.com/
SecTalks Melbourne @sectalksmel.bsky.social SecTalks is a non-profit session for technical security talks, and hands-on security challenges! A forum to learn & discuss technical (in)security stuff.
https://www.sectalks.org/melbourne/
GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg.bsky.social I build and buy internet companies with strong communities.
CEO of Late Checkout, host Startup Ideas Podcast
I give free startup ideas
demi @cuddlepunk.bsky.social they / them
supposedly in possession of pretty handwriting
award-winning toy maker ✦ digital humanist
luddite
d@nny disc@ mc² @hipsterelectron.bsky.social typing free software to break the shoulders of giants from golden handcuffs. i build tools to level the playing field.
i have a better bio at https://circumstances.run/@hipsterelectron
Ruby Quail @quail.bsky.social pretty artist designer, and technologist with red hair, I make gay art and write code for @acmilabs.bsky.social,🏳️⚧️ girl, (she/her) https://rubyquail.design (also @rubyquaildesign elsewhere)
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Maya Kaczorowski @mayakaczorowski.com I love puzzles almost as much as ice cream
she/her 
Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net 🏳️⚧️🇵🇷 Senior Clinical Instructor, Harvard Law Cyberlaw Clinic. Gender & Tech. Views = my own. She/Her.
Inquiries: alejandracaraballo.com/contact
Crikey @crikey.com.au Holding power to account.
Independent, Australian-owned news, investigation, analysis and opinion.
🕵 Know something? Send a tip through our secure channels:
https://www.crikey.com.au/tip-off-crikey/
sailor mercury @sailorhg.com putting the ✿soft✿ in software engineer
🇮🇩🇺🇸
✿ shop.bubblesort.io
✿ sailorhg.com
Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org 👊 Battling techno-fascism with our Internet-savvy blend of attention-grabbing activism and mass mobilization.
https://www.fightforthefuture.org/2026
Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com Principal analyst and managing director at PivotNine.
S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project @stopspyingny.bsky.social Fighting to abolish local & state surveillance. 
Dustrial @dustrial.net Ctrl Alt Design, Dustrial
Daydreams like Mainframes
Artist (traditional, digital, code) Designer, Apparel T1D
Dustrial.net
Lily Hay Newman @lhn.bsky.social Security reporter for WIRED Magazine. she/her/my man. Signal +1 (347) 722-1347
Tech Won’t Save Us @techwontsave.us A left-wing podcast for a better world and better tech. Hosted by @parismarx.com. Made in partnership with @thenation.com.
https://techwontsave.us/
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
Evelyn @kandake.africa 👩🏾💻 Building open tech for orgs with @eskahlay.com
👵🏾 In tech since before the cloud
🏳️🌈🌌 Part of NorthSky Social
https://chipnick.com
🇩🇪🇸🇩🏳️🌈
BSides Melbourne @bsidesmelbourne.bsky.social #BSidesMelb2026
Training 15th May, 2026
Conference 16-17th May, 2026
https://www.bsidesmelbourne.com/
@silviocesare.bsky.social @silviocesare.bsky.social 
vortex @vortex.au I do offensive security things on the internet
serena (𝑂𝑓𝑓𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑒) @serena.nz a real girl trapped in a computer. cyber aesthetics doctor at chrome
📍nyc/nz
🦝 Pepper Raccoon: Trash Priestess 🦝 @pepperraccoon.com Somewhat Known Conservation Artist | Merch Designer | Hacker Companion | Latinx Queer | She/They | NZ•Aotearoa Based/Ship Worldwide | NO AI #Art
Shop: pepperraccoon.com
James Forshaw @tiraniddo.dev Security researcher in Google Project Zero. Author of Attacking Network Protocols. Posts are my own etc. 
Kylie McDevitt @kyliemcdevitt.bsky.social Cofounder & CEO @infosectcbr.bsky.social | Organiser @bsidescbr.bsky.social
snare @snare.ho.ax Nah
Uncle Joe @sydseter.com Co-leader OWASP Cornucopia. If you like what we do for open source, visit our code repository https://github.com/OWASP/cornucopia and give us a star ⭐
🌈 «Difference is of the essence of humanity» 🦄 – John Hume
#appsec #owasp #cornucopia #threatmodeling
errbufferoverfl @errbufferoverfl.bsky.social reluctant security engineer • they/them • enthusiastic zinester & artist • located in Berrin, South Australia • disabled • local cryptid • future subsistence farmer
Shlee fucked around and @shl.ee Teacher, Mother, Lover, Enabler
📧 hey@shl.ee / ashley@generozity.charity
Mastodon: @shlee@aus.social
He/They
Jess 'GirlGerms' Dodson @girlgerms.wtf SecOps Witch 🔮
Lego zealot & Blizzard tragic 🎮
Slave to 7yo terror 👶
Australian based 🦘
Provider of sarcasm & profanity 🤬
she/her ♀️
Views ALL MINE 💜
https://linktr.ee/girlgerms
Australian Spy Museum @aus-spymuseum.bsky.social Our mission - is collection, preservation, sharing and education on the history of espionage, and evolution of modern threats.
Our vision and goal - is to establish an independent and permanent museum home for our collection and educational programs.
hoodie🐴 @hoodiepony.com I'm a pony. Sometimes a cyber sherpa, and helping keep myself safe by helping other be cyber safe. Also sometimes breaks stuff and void warranties. 🏳️🌈 (they/them/it)
Also, infosec.exchange/@hoodiepony
Other Endpoints @ hello.unicorncyber.space
Erica @sputina.bsky.social info sec, cat, and ketchup enthusiast + crüe for Kiwicon/Kawaiicon NZ + Safestack Huge Security Nerd/COO, she+her
Molly White @molly.wiki writes citationneeded.news • runs @web3isgoinggreat.com and @influence.citationneeded.news • tech researcher and cryptocurrency industry critic • software engineer • wikipedian
support my work: citationneeded.news/signup
links: mollywhite.net/linktree
💗💜💙
the grugq @thegrugq.bsky.social 
CrikeyCon @crikeycon.bsky.social 
Mark Dowd @mdowd.bsky.social Internet hacker
kat @kgt.bsky.social [-o-]
microgames: https://chipswoon.itch.io/
everything else: https://kgt.dev
DMs closed bc Australia
caite @caitelatte.com computer worker, sometimes twitch and celeste gamer, now living in Naarm Melbourne. they/she
Lukasz Gogolkiewicz @synick.bsky.social cyber guy, advocate for diversity in tech, mentor, adventurer, and woodworker...
"Alex" @mangopdf.bsky.social australia's only hacker
https://mango.pdf.zone
🄰llen Barano🅅 ✅ @moment-of-ti.me Pronouns: he/him
World's only AAA-rated GRC hacker
DEFCON Group Melbourne founder
Time Magazine's Person of the year in 2006
Infinidash expert
attacus || Lilly Ryan @attacus.net Computational entomologist, privacy enthusiast, historian. Perpetually raging against the ghost in the machine.
Mastodon: @attacus@aus.social
👁 Digital Rights Watch | 🎙 Byte Into IT on 📻 3RRR FM | 🐍 PyCon AU
Katie Moussouris (she/her/she-hulk/she-ra)🌻 @k8em0.bsky.social Founder & CEO LutaSecurity @payequitynow MIT&Harvard visiting scholar, @MasonNatSec fellow, 1/2 Chamoru, 1/2 Greek all-American hacker
jessfraz @jess.dev CEO @ KittyCADInc, 👩🏻💻 @ oxidecomputer, 📝 @ ACMQueue
Rachel Tobac @racheltobac.bsky.social Hacker & CEO @SocialProofSec security awareness/social engineering training, videos, talks | 3X @DEFCON🥈 | Ex Chair @WISPorg | Ex @CISAgov Technical Advisory Council under Director Jen Easterly
Sarah Young @sarahyo.com Ex - Security & AI stuff @ Microsoft | Co-host of @azsecpod.bsky.social | Dogs, food and cyber security posts | Opinions mine, not my employer's | 🇬🇧 living in 🇦🇺 | Sarahyoung.io
OJ @oj.cx I'm here to blurt climbing stuff, and periodically whinge.
shubs @shubs.io Co-founder, security researcher. Building an attack surface management platform, @assetnote.io
Laura Bell Main @ladynerd.bsky.social CEO at SafeStack | coauthor of Agile Application Security and Security for Everyone | Host of Build Amazing Things (securely) | #appsec nerd | mom
Runa Sandvik @runasand.bsky.social Founder of Granitt, securing journalists and at-risk people around the world. 
Eliza Sorensen @elizasorensen.bsky.social local smut peddler, snarky antagonist, koori, disabled, queer, tech policy, founder and recovering sysadmin.
they/she.
samantha floreani @floreani.bsky.social digital rights advocate / writer / PhD candidate researching tech + housing justice 🏠 surveillance isn't safety xoxo
samanthafloreani.com
Vaughan @vaughanshanks.bsky.social 
Christian @xntrik.wtf Aussie appsec dork, worked at a bunch of places. Opinions my own and all that jazz.
https://xntrik.wtf
Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it Australian hacker.
Foghlaimeoir Gaeilge.
Tír Bundúchasach. Mar a bhí sí i gcónaí, beidh sí go deo. 
Frenchie @fre.bsky.social InfoSec geek for Cloud/Clusters/Containers/Credentials/CI/CD/things-starting-with-C working on something new… Honk the planet. Twitter: @nfFrenchie
Kate Pearce @secvalve.bsky.social Aotearoa. Recovered pentester, security pragmatist. Head of security at a place Kiwi know, many other hats. 👩🏽💻🏳️🌈 Personal views. #infosec #cybersecurity Also @Secvalve@cloudisland.Nz
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. 🏳️🌈
Topy @t0py.bsky.social Hacker. Breaker. Lock Picker. Physical Security Enthusiast. Photography. HackHouse. OzSecCon founder. Curious. IBM Z9 Owner. Warranty Void If Removed.
Formerly @Infosecfriends on Twitter.
https://hackhouse.org
AI Now Institute @ainowinstitute.bsky.social The AI Now Institute produces diagnosis and actionable policy research on artificial intelligence.
Find us at https://ainowinstitute.org/ 
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute 
Operation Safe Escape @safeescape.org 501c3, Educating Rescuing and Empowering survivors of abuse, stalking, domestic violence, harassment, trafficking and CSAM. 3500+ successful cases.
Looking for new supporters, allies, volunteers, and partners!
https://safeescape.org
Martijn Grooten @martijngrooten.bsky.social Threat researcher, rights supporter, obsessive reader, marathon runner, eternal traveler, serial migrant, music blogger, lapsed mathematician.
https://lapsedordinary.net/
Signal: martijngrooten.37
@stopstalkerware.bsky.social @stopstalkerware.bsky.social 
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.
The Onion @theonion.com America’s Finest News Source. A @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social subsidiary.
Get the paper delivered to your door: membership.theonion.com
Join The Onion Newsletter: https://theonion.com/newsletters/
404 Media @404media.co it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
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
Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby Kubernetes SIG Security Co-Chair.
I hack things and build community.
Minneapolis. They/them. Stay punk 🏴
MSP feed info: https://bsky.app/profile/amityf.bsky.social/post/3mrv36uo4pc2a
Brody @brody-n77.bsky.social Cybersecurity, Battletech, and Sci-Fi.
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
SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com computer security person. former helpdesk
girl moss inc. 🌱🤖☠️ @rachelholtzman.bsky.social mba candidate @ columbia business school. formerly security/tech comms leader. ex-highwire, edelman, northwestern medill. femme-ing and queering the future.
Kelly Shortridge @shortridge.bsky.social software resilience, cybersecurity, complex systems | chief product officer @fastly.com | nyc
“In the information society, nobody thinks. We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought.”
kellyshortridge.com
@swagitda_ on Twitter
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
Bluesky @bsky.app official Bluesky account (check username👆)
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