More than 4,000 ransomware attacks have occurred since the beginning of 2016, according to Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section. The rise is noticed also in malware, phishing and attacks due to accidental insiders. Security threats are increasing every day and technologists are keeping themselves updated on the latest on this subject. See my list of top 10 cyber security influencers to stay on top of cyber security and stay current with all the on-going threats.

1. Kim Zetter
Kim Zetter is a top cybersecurity journalist and is a Senior Staff Writer at Wired. She has penned over 100 articles and is also the author of “Countdown to Zero Day” a book which reveals the story behind the virus that sabotaged Iran’s nuclear efforts and shows how its existence has introduced a digital attack that has the same destructive capability as an explosive bomb. A must read!

Security researchers want to buy ShadowBrokers’ remaining exploits to avoid future WannaCry-like attacks – https://t.co/WiurTctIBS

— Kim Zetter (@KimZetter) June 1, 20

2. Daniel Miessler 

Daniel Miessler is an information security practitioner and actively maintains his website which has over 2,500 essays, posts, tutorials, articles, and other types of content. Every Sunday he shares a curated list of the most interesting stories in InfoSec, technology, and humans called “Unsupervised Learnings”. I highly recommend subscribing to his Sunday edition.

Every Sunday I put out a curated list of the most interesting stories in infosec, technology, and humans.— ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪᴇssʟᴇʀ (@DanielMiessler) March 18, 2017

3. Dave Shackleford

Dave Shackleford likes to call himself an opinionated security geek. He is the owner of Voodoo Security, a firm that takes a high-level analytical approach to security projects. He provides an authoritative view in the InfoSec space, shares security tech articles /case studies and has some interesting interactions with industry peers.

China’s strict cyber law takes effect Thursday, alarms businesseshttps://t.co/TRVswtRIJx

— Dave Shackleford (@daveshackleford) May 31, 2017

4. Brian Krebs

If we are talking about the latest news in security, then most probably that news was broken to us by Brian Krebs. He is a well-known investigative journalist working on everything related to security. He is known to provide rational insight and is also the author of Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cyber Crime from Global Epidemic to your Front Door.

Exclusive, breaking: Kmart is battling its second malware-based credit card breach in less than 3 years https://t.co/JArYvftGd9 — briankrebs (@briankrebs) June 1, 2017

5.Lesley Carhart

Lesley Carhart speaks and writes about digital forensics and incident response, OSINT, and information security careers. She loves to speak about information security and digital forensics to technical and non-technical audiences as she believes in making this field accessible and interesting to all – as security impacts everyone and everyone has the potential to impact security. You can learn a lot more from this refreshing girl on her blog.

Have questions or problems involving hacking/information security? Submit them to my blog advice column, here: https://t.co/LMhUVIvPN8

— Lesley (@hacks4pancakes) January 23, 2017

6. Mikko Hypponen

Mikko Hypponen is the Chief Research Officer of F-Secure. He has written for the New York Times, Wired and Scientific America and has lectured at the universities of Stanford, Oxford and Cambridge. He has delivered the most watched computer security talk on the internet. Some of his intriguing TED videos are – http://on.ted.com/Hypponen, http://on.ted.com/Mikko3 and http://on.ted.com/NSAbetray.

7.Nicole Perlroth

Nicole Perlroth is the cybersecurity writer for The New York Times, and has covered impacting news like the NSA’s efforts to crack down on encryption and Chinese cyber espionage. Her new book is soon to hit the shelves, “This is How They Tell Me the World Ends,” do keep a lookout for that. This is what she wrote recently on the North Korean link to the ransomware attack,

“SAN FRANCISCO — More evidence emerged Monday that North Korean hackers were behind the global ransomware attack that still holds hundreds of thousands of computers hostage. There are now hard links connecting a group of North Korean hackers that experts call the Lazarus Group to the ransomware known as WannaCry, according to researchers at the security company Symantec. Symantec’s researchers first pointed the finger at Lazarus last week, but on Monday said their findings were close to conclusive. “From all that we see, the technical evidence points to the fact that this is Lazarus,” Eric Chien, an investigator at Symantec, said in an interview Monday.”  

8. Paul Asadoorian

Paul Asadoorian is a fun video blogger and the Founder and CEO of Security Weekly, providing latest news on IT security, vulnerabilities, hacking, and research. Every Thursday his blog features live broadcasts with the industry updates. He is also the CEO of Offensive Countermeasures, a developer of new and cutting-edge products to proactively nip cybersecurity breaches in the bud.  Here is a video of him with another security expert featured here,Lesley Carhart.

9.Graham Penrose

Graham Penrose is the owner of TMG Corporate Services. He is also the Social VIP at IBM, Founder of Art for Action, CMO of MyFaceValue and Global Influencer at Onalytica. He has strong beliefs in protecting democracy, privacy, the rights of the individual, free speech and the preservation of civil liberties. You can follow him for some inspiring pieces around cyber security. 

The Pry Minister is #watching you – be concerned, #Repeal the #IPBill #GCHQ #MassSurveillance #Orwellian #NoPrivacy pic.twitter.com/Bi9asYW1UW

— Graham Penrose (@GrahamPenrose2) November 26, 2016

10. Katie Moussouris

Katie Moussouris is known as a cybersecurity trailblazer. She has worked on some of the fundamental projects for Microsoft and the US government. She is the founder of Luta Security and is constantly sharing new updates on InfoSec and utility of bug bounty programs on Twitter. Following her is like following a thriller action hero!

Thrilled @lutasecurity is guiding @ncsc towards UK gov’s 1st Vuln Coordination pilot. God Save the Queen’s Bugs! https://t.co/Assp40yi23

— Katie Moussouris (@k8em0) March 15, 2017

I thoroughly enjoy reading everything these influencers have to say. I recommend you to follow and connect with these influencers, enjoy the banter they provide, the interactions they have and learn about the brands that they advocate. Stay safe and secure online!

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