{"id":489,"date":"2018-07-24T23:41:03","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T23:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vpn.ie\/blog\/?p=489"},"modified":"2018-08-13T00:20:03","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T00:20:03","slug":"twitter-security-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vpn.ie\/blog\/twitter-security-accounts\/","title":{"rendered":"8 security accounts to follow on twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who read our blog and are on twitter, this post is for you! We are big fans of the platform for discovering industry news and trends about security, VPNs and privacy. We tweet every now and again under <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/irishvpns\">@IrishVPNs<\/a>.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-498\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vpn.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/twitter-security-accounts-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vpn.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/twitter-security-accounts-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.vpn.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/twitter-security-accounts-332x221.jpg 332w, https:\/\/www.vpn.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/twitter-security-accounts.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So after you&#8217;ve followed us \u261d, here are some great great people to follow.<\/p>\n<h2>1 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/troyhunt\">@TroyHunt<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Based in Australia and creator of @haveibeenpwned, a lookup tool for checking if your email and passwords have been a subject of a data breach. Troy is an active advocator for HTTPS everywhere and other security movements.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">So here it is &#8211; my latest <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pluralsight?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@pluralsight<\/a> course &#8211; and why every web developer needs to understand HTTPS <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7gn4GIhv1b\">https:\/\/t.co\/7gn4GIhv1b<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/troyhunt\/status\/852442262688550912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 13, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>2 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/briankrebs\">@briankrebs<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Brian Krebs<\/strong> is the maintainer of a popular security blog,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/\">http:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mobile Giants: Please Don&#39;t Share the Where <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zbeQEqe46j\">https:\/\/t.co\/zbeQEqe46j<\/a> Real time information about the location of your mobile device is being sold to commercial third parties who are all getting hacked <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DontShareTheWhere?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DontShareTheWhere<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5gFamYVAEa\">pic.twitter.com\/5gFamYVAEa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; briankrebs (@briankrebs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/briankrebs\/status\/998967478960185354?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 22, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>3 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/laparisa\">@laparisa<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Parisa Tabriz is one of the managers at Googles information security team. She calls herself a Security Princess. <\/p>\n<h2>4 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/window\">@window<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Window Snyder (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Window_Snyder\">wikipedia<\/a>) has just joined Intel as Chief Software Security Officer as of June 2018. Previously she work at Fastly as CSO, Microsoft, Mozilla and Apple.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congratulations to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/window?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Window<\/a> Synder on being named the new Chief Software Security Officer! I&#39;m excited to be able to welcome such a veteran in the security industry to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intel?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Intel<\/a>. I look forward to collaborating with you! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WomenInSTEM?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WomenInSTEM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Paula Tolliver (@Paula_Tolliver) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Paula_Tolliver\/status\/1011758330518253568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 26, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/laparisa\/status\/988778834542514176<\/p>\n<h2>5 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SwiftOnSecurity\">@SwiftOnSecurity<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Swift has over 240 thousand followers and regularly shares breaking security news.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Clear audio is also critical for automated transcription, making them inaccessible to the hard-of-hearing.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; SwiftOnSecurity (@SwiftOnSecurity) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SwiftOnSecurity\/status\/1028744878237212672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 12, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>6 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kindervag\">@kindervag<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><strong>John Kindervag is former Forrester Principle Analyst. Where he focussed on network security, information security, PCI data security and wireless security. Currently he is the CTO of Palo Alto Netwoks.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Most companies use HOPE as their risk mitigation strategy:<br \/>(H)ead in the sand<br \/>(O)bfuscate reality<br \/>(P)oint the finger<br \/>(E)mployment journey<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; John Kindervag (@Kindervag) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Kindervag\/status\/544877420638404608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 16, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>7 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/@dangoodin001\">@dangoodin001<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Dan Goodin is a Technical writer \/ reporter at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arstechnica.com\/\">Arstecnica<\/a>\u00a0with responsibility for covering IT Security topics such as Malware, botnets and hardware hacking. Dan shares a lot of breaking news around internet security<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/dangoodin001\/status\/1022608741663821825<\/p>\n<h2>8 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/twittersecurity\">@twittersecurity<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Keep an up to date on security reports from twitter itself.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/TwitterSupport\/status\/992132808192634881<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who read our blog and are on twitter, this post is for you! We are big fans of the platform for discovering industry news and trends about security, VPNs and privacy. We tweet every now and again under @IrishVPNs. 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