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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.
Accidental CISO @accidentalciso.net I accidentally became the CISO. I didn't want this job, but the job chose me. I'm scared, and I want to go home.
https://www.accidentalciso.net
Jason Haddix @jhaddix.bsky.social CEO, CISO, Trainer, Hacker, and Speaker.
AI + hacking + sec leadership.
ex:BuddoBot-Ubisoft-Bugcrowd-Fortify-HP-Redspin-Citrix.
Kevin Beaumont @doublepulsar.com cybersecurity weather man. scanning the horizons for cloudy cyber. Expert at nothing except computer rubbish. Anti-ransomware since 2015.
Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social I teach cryptography at Johns Hopkins. https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com
Azeria @azeria-labs.com Founder of Azeria Labs, Trainer, Author of Blue Fox: Arm Assembly Internals & Reverse Engineering
John Hultquist @hultquist.bsky.social Mandiant Intelligence at Google. CYBERWARCON and SLEUTHCON founder. Johns Hopkins professor. Army vet.
J. A. Guerrero-Saade (JAGS) @jags.bsky.social VP of Intelligence and Security Research, Senior Technical Fellow (AI) @ SentinelOne.
Distinguished Fellow and Adj Professor @ Hopkins SAIS Alperovitch Institute. Three Buddy Problem Co-Host. LABScon Founder, Cyber Paleontologist, Fourth-Party Collector.
Jason Kikta @kikta.net // Making it up as I go
// JHU SAIS @alperovitch.institute adjunct
// @istorg.bsky.social adjunct sr tech advisor
// Former USCYBERCOM/CNMF
// Retired US Marine Corps
// Personal views and invective
Max Smeets @maxwsmeets.bsky.social Author of No Shortcuts & Ransom War
Co-director Virtual Routes (https://virtual-routes.org/), previously ECCRI
Managing Editor Binding Hook (https://bindinghook.com)
Senior Researcher, ETH Zurich
Glenn @ntkramer.bsky.social Elder Millennial | 💼 Cybersecurity | I ask 'why?' a lot | Pro Oxford Comma | Fix it! | He/Him | #BLM | Views are my own.
Taggart @taggart-tech.com @mttaggart@infosec.exchange. Displaced Philly boy. Executive Director of @ifin-intel.org. Threat hunter. Educator. Dad. General in the AI Resistance.
taggartinstitute.org
wtfbins.wtf
linktr.ee/mttaggart
Lou @loustella.com Threat Researcher
NJ->TX->PA
Contains Multitudes.
Dave Wilburn @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
Ron Bowes @iagox86.bsky.social Staff Product Detection Engineer @ Censys. https://skullsecurity.org
Mostly post about professional stuff, maybe some improv stuff and maybe even magic some day. Seattle-based (originally Canadian), queer, cybersecurity nerd.
(He/him)
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.
Jake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social Breaker of software, responder of incidents, IANS Faculty, VP R&D Hunter Strategy.
Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social Security & Investigations Director at @WIRED.com. Send tips and/or dog pics.
Signal: couts.01
Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social Calm the FUD down
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.
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
Adam J O’Donnell @adamjodonnell.bsky.social Deputy CISO @ Stripe. I like art. cDc ❤️🫵
@lodrina.bsky.social @lodrina.bsky.social "liberal arts section of the computer underground" -j. menn
Russell Devine @rjmd.bsky.social 💼 Cybersecurity 📀 Forensics & Response
All opinions are from a southern right whale I met off the coast of Tasmania 🐋
Gerald Benischke @beny23.github.io Maker, breaker and fixer of software. Adventures in #appsec and #agile: beny23.github.io he/him
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
Exploit Code Not People @cooperq.com Cybertiger. Senior Staff technologist at @eff.org Fellow @citizenlab.ca Board member @openarchive.bsky.social. "Noted activist security type." Anti-fascist. he/him. My skeets do not represent views of my employers ⵣ🏴 signal: cooperq.01
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 🦆
Ollie Whitehouse @ollieatnowhere.bsky.social CTO at the UK's National Cyber Security Center 
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
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.
Andrew Case @attrc.bsky.social Volatility Core developer, Dir. of Research Volexity, LSU Cyber
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
ChiefGyk3D @chiefgyk3d.com #Cybersecurity and #InfoSec by Trade and content creator by night for #Tech, Cybersecurity, #IT, #Linux, #AmateurRadio, and #GamingonLinux
Twitch | YouTube | TikTok | Mastodon
CISSP
Socials and Tipping: https://links.chiefgyk3d.com/socials
#OpenSource
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
adafruit @adafruit.com Engineer - Founder of Adafruit - Brooklyn, NY USA - Manufacturer, open-source hardware, certified Minority and Woman-owned Business Enterprise (M/WBE) https://adafruit.com - support https://forums.adafruit.com & order/customer help support@adafruit.com
ElissaBeth @elissa.bsky.social Mostly Infosec Posts. Formerly at Brave, other privacy/security startups. Published the anthology "Lean Out" in 2015.
Running a Security Firm, @ me for a consultation.
Patrick Howell O’Neill @patrickhowelloneill.com Journalist at Bloomberg News in DC. Signal: @howelloneill.01, email: patoneill1@bloomberg.net https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/AXb8dLPHBFc/patrick-howell-oneill
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute 
SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com computer security person. former helpdesk
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
Alex Stamos @stamos.org CPO/CSO of Corridor.dev, teaching at Stanford.
Joe Slowik @pylos.co Threat Intel / CTI / OT / ICS / Critical Infra stuff along with other things. I genuinely care, and wish others did too.
Website: pylos.co
Training/Consulting: paralus.co
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
Jamie Brummell @jamieb.com Dad • Gamer • Humanist • InfoSec • Cyber • Founder & CTO @socura.co.uk • MDR / SOC • Detection Engineering • DFIR
🌐 jamieb.com
📍 Buckinghamshire, UK
Fonephreak02 @fonephreak02.2600.blue Tech content etc. mixed, pan, audhd, I tinker on whatever hits my fancy. Electronics, mechanics and old telecommunications things mostly.
That dude on tiktok.
Tanisha L. Turner @cybersecdiva.bsky.social Cybersecurity Professional | Malware Researcher | Threat Hunter | <Detection> | SecOps
All Views expressed are my own.
Graham Cluley @grahamcluley.com Award-winning #cybersecurity keynote speaker, writer, podcaster | Host of multi-award-winning @smashingsecurity.com podcast.
❤️ #DoctorWho, #Beatles, #Chess
He/him
🌐 https://grahamcluley.com
🎙️ https://www.smashingsecurity.com
Jakoby @iamjakoby.bsky.social 
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
Michael Moore @michaelmoore.ai #AI, #Cybersecurity, and other technology topics. Trying to make the world a better place. Personal account; my views only. Work: https://s1.ai/purple at @sentinelone.com
Black Hat @blackhatevents.bsky.social The world's premier Technical Cybersecurity Conference Series
DEF CON Parrot🦜 @defconparrot.bsky.social Latest News, Fun Moments & Event updates from the DEF CON Community • Follow to stay updated!💛
#DEFCON33 Dates:🎉Aug 07 - Aug 10, 2025
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Hackread.com @hackread.bsky.social The official Bluesky account of the most reliable cybersecurity news platform brings exclusive dark web, tech, hacking news, and much more. Contact: admin@hackread.com.
Christian Folini @christian-folini.ch Web application security guy with a passion for OWASP's open source WAF projects and National Cyber Strategy.
Maintains "Swiss Cyber Security" starter pack and cherishes his small collection of medieval helmets.
Tom Lawrence @lawrencesystems.com ⚠Tech Enthusiast, Open Source Advocate, Content Creator, DM's are not for tech support but my forums are. ⚠
https://lawrencesystems.com/
Kevin @adjacentnode.com VLAN therapist. Wi-Fi whisperer.
15 years of proving it wasn’t the network.
Follow me, nerds.
Joseph Frusci @theaveragejoe.org Cybersecurity | Cloud | AI | Networking | Education | Coffee
https://linktr.ee/joseph.frusci
The Cyber (in)Security Hub @cybersecurity.bsky.social Former NSA hacker; Cyber Expert; Current CISO, TV Cyber Expert & Keynote Speaker
Twitch.tv/cyber_insecurity
topmate.io/neal_bridges
https://linktr.ee/cyber_insecurity
#cybersecurity #redteam #hacking #blueteam #securityoperations #ciso
Cybersecurity For All @cybersec4all.bsky.social A cybersecurity enthusiast and blogger
https://cyber-sec-4-all.com/
Center for Cybersecurity Policy and Law @cyberseccenter.bsky.social Since 2017, CCPL has combined policy expertise with convening power to bring industry leaders & policymakers together to better manage security threats.
https://www.centerforcybersecuritypolicy.org/
CyberCanon @cybercanon.org We vet #Cybersecurity books. Our reviews are written by real life experts, heroes, and hackers who led through the biggest exploits.
www.cybercanon.org
Also known as the Cybersecurity Canon Project
Founded: 2013
Women In Cybersecurity Community Association @womenofwicca.bsky.social 👩💻 Talks and drinks among ladies to discuss all things InfoSec 🔑🇳🇱
womenofwicca.nl #WICCA_NL
Conference with an all-women speaker line-up designed to highlight women’s technical achievements in the cybersecurity field. -> wiccon.nl
👻Linda CISSP, Ghostwriter for Cybersecurity SaaS Founders @lindawbell.bsky.social Ghostwriter for cybersecurity risk & strategy leaders and innovators. I create email education courses that build industry authority.
UWF Center for Cybersecurity and AI @uwfcyberai.bsky.social The UWF Center for Cybersecurity and AI is a nationally recognized and global leader advancing secure, responsible, and workforce-ready artificial intelligence and cybersecurity.
Indecent Security @indecentsec.bsky.social Security enthusiast, Gen X Gamer, Dad, Husband, New Yorker, IT Project Manager by day and all around tinkerer. Actual American Patriot. Hopeful Future Survivor Player
SecurityBrew @securitybrew.bsky.social Hokay, here now but still on the Twitter Titanic. It’s like watching a slow motion disaster over there. #cybersecurity #OWASP
Dustin Volz @dustinvolz.bsky.social Washington correspondent for The New York Times focused on cyber conflict, digital espionage and intelligence. Prior stops at WSJ, Reuters, National Journal. https://www.nytimes.com/by/dustin-volz
Eric Geller @ericjgeller.com Senior reporter at @CybersecurityDive.bsky.social covering all things digital security. I also co-host @hothtakes.bsky.social. | Send me tips: https://ericjgeller.com/contact.html
Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social Writer for WIRED. Author of SANDWORM. Latest book, TRACERS IN THE DARK: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency, out now. agreenberg@wired.com. Andy.01 on Signal.
Lily Hay Newman @lhn.bsky.social Security reporter for WIRED Magazine. she/her/my man. Signal +1 (347) 722-1347
Jack Gillum @jackgillum.bsky.social Relentless ferret for The Wall Street Journal. Signal: @jgillum.01. More contact info at https://gillum.org
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.
Robert McMillan @bobmcmillan.bsky.social Cybersecurity reporter for the Wall Street Journal
Ellen Nakashima @ellenwapo.bsky.social Intelligence and national security reporter at The Washington Post. Reach me securely on Signal at Ellen.626.
Will Oremus @willoremus.com Covering online speech, the information economy and AI weirdness at @theatlantic.com. Shitposting about Bluesky on Bluesky.
Signal: willoremus.24
Greg Otto @gregotto.bsky.social @gregotto from twitter, now on bluesky. Editor-in-Chief at CyberScoop. Host of Safe Mode. Better with words than I am with code.
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
Julian E. Barnes @julianbarnes.bsky.social New York Times intelligence reporter. 
Ryan Gallagher @rjgallagher.co.uk Investigative reporter @Bloomberg.com covering technology & cybersecurity.
Anonymous tips: https://tips.hushline.app/to/ryan
Email: ryan@rjgallagher.co.uk
Signal/WhatsApp: +44 737-678-6842
Alexa Corse @alexacorse.bsky.social WSJ social-media reporter
dell cameron @dell.bsky.social Sr. writer @wired.com:
Surveillance & coptech
Signal: dell.3030
Raphael Satter @raphae.li Say hi: https://raphae.li or on Signal: raphaelsatter.01
David DiMolfetta @ddimolfetta.bsky.social Nextgov/FCW cybersecurity + intelligence reporter. Tips: ddimolfetta@govexec.com Signal: @ djd.99 X/Twitter: @ddimolfetta
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
Kim Zetter @kimzetter.bsky.social Journalist - cyber/natn'l security. Speaker. Georgetown adjunct prof. Author - COUNTDOWN TO ZERO DAY: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
Signal: KimZ.42
https://www.zetter-zeroday.com
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
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.
Jeff Stone @jeffstone.bsky.social tech editor @ Bloomberg covering security, extremism + scammers. ask for Signal. go outside. email: jstone183@bloomberg.net
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
Sam Biddle @sambiddle.com Senior Technology Reporter at The Intercept
Got a tip? Signal: sambiddle.99 (Make sure you don’t contact me via a work-provided device)
https://sambiddle.com
Sheera Frenkel @sheeraf.bsky.social NYTimes reporter and co-author of NYT bestseller “An Ugly Truth” with Cecilia Kang.
Tell me a story. (Ideally through a non-work device using Signal. Find me via my username sheera.11)
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb.bsky.social Real-time historian of the late cyber capitalist era @TechCrunch, writing about the intersection of hackers, human rights, and spies.
Also writing a book about Hacking Team and the history of government spyware.
☎️ Signal: +1 917 257 1382