Updated page 6/6/2025
Moved Bruce Schneier to #17 (From #19). Also removed Rapid7 from #27 and placed under the list (I like to keep only 30 of them). SANS Digital is #29 and Rand Corp stayed #30. ISACA Blog to #28 with Sophos to #27.
- Cybersecurity value (subjective (my prerogative) (first value)
- Industrylinks (‘Cybersecurity’ keyword) ( second value)
- AI relevance (includes AI discussion or news (third value)
- Attacker information (China, Russia, and others) (fourth value)
- Google importance information site discusses relevant Google news) (fifth value)
- Recent updates frequency (sixth value)
- video/audio(podcasts) relevance my subjective value – Irongeek is gone – did not return after the pandemic live show lull, so looking for a ’10’ site.
- High cybersecurity value
I keep the list and its numbers in a spreadsheet so I can make changes when necessary.
Top informational sites 1-30
1. This blog/podcast site https://danielmiessler.com/ has a comprehensive look at AI and how to use it – why etc. Kept this one here for the AI value.
2. Adding The Record.media a news cybercrime which seems very relevant…
3. The Hacker News – this is a headline news magazine – updates frequently. some good stuff. I have read this site for a long time – pushed into3rd spot. (this is a site that an AI said was a top5 cybersecurity blog)
4. Dark reading is an InformationWeek Security blog with good Security topics
5. Internet Storm Center SANS: an Industry leader in Security certification and training – the place to go to work on technical skillsets within Cybersecurity and this is their daily blog of current events.
6. Linuxsecurity is a great site for Linux vulnerability information
7. SCMagazine – Security magazine consistently has good Security articles and has been honored with national honors from ASBPE http://www.scmagazine.com/sc-wins-three-top-national-honors-from-asbpe/article/511656/
8. TechNewsWorld has a decent number of good articles http://www.technewsworld.com/perl/section/cyber-security/
9. Security Boulevard is a new link seems like has relevant detailed posts
10. Another newer site: https://cybernews.com/ -moved it down a bit, not in top10
11. Security Week – New site for this list, but it is a standard industry zine. moved up couple of months later
12. Reddit section “netsec” https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/ has very good posts frequently – Lots of new good posts. I switched the link to the “old” reddit look, as one can see all the posts easier in my opinion.
13. With a special interest in KrebsonSecurity David Krebs has authored “SpamNation” is looked at for computer breach news – He was a journalist, now Darknet reviewer and more.
14. TheCyberPost The Cyber Post was created with the intention of giving the world the low down in the cyber-security world: “Says the site in the about page”.
15. Arstechnica has many good cybersecurity posts, there is also an interesting tag area for china..
16. CISA – Cyber infrastructure Security Agency – Spotlight on at the CISA website – they have updated this to be more relevant with current attacks and more… (this is a site that an AI said was a top5 cybersecurity blog)
17. Bruce Schneier, a security expert writing about cyber security since 1998 – excellent theorist and book writer.
18. Cyware.com A new link for some slightly different amalgamation of cybersecurity news. found this through a search on cyber security news.
19. https://cyberscoop.com/ added Cyberscoop as it has some value
20. https://cybersecurity-magazine.com/ just added has some value
21. Homeland Security News Wire http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/topics/cybersecurity Has many relevant cybersecurity news stories. %5-7-6-8-0=26% Some value, but high Google ranking, high updates, no video
22. Mandiant Blog Has now morphed into Google Cloud threat intelligence
23. The Register a classic IT news site has some interesting angles.
24. http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/ Decent news topics general in nature. And don’t forget Infosec magazine’s Blogs: http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/blogs/
25. SucuriBlog http://blog.sucuri.net/ WordPress developer Blog about security, Has other topics , we use this plugin has excellent WordPress insights
26. Malwarebytes Unpacked the https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog Blog of malwarebytes (excellent AV app).
27. NakedSecurity by Sophos has changed to Sophos News X-ops where the articles have been divided into several sections: Security Operations, Threat Research and AI Research .
28. ISACA Now Blog http://www.isaca.org/Knowledge-Center/Blog/default.aspx which is the Information Systems Auditing and Control Association Blog
29. SANS Digital Forensics Blog is a good forensics blog with some new posts
30. Rand Corp Blog is where the Cybersecurity researcher Martin Libicki writes – Rand Corp is a prestigious science research institution among other items. bringing it back for a bit…
Dropped out of top30 or adding new blogs to review periodically:
Rapid7 has a Security Blog well researched posts: https://blog.rapid7.com/
Securelist Blog (A Kaspersky Lab endeavor) and their Twitter feed seems to be in Germany.
ZDNet Zero Day blog by ZDNet – new info about hacker some value(got bumped 11/8/24)
Stay safe online, A national Cybersecurity Alliance effort to help people improve Cyber Security (latest site to drop out of top30 – as of 4/17/24) it is more of a site to help basic users with basic cyber hygiene, rather than news etc, vulnerabilities so will remove for now.
https://security.googleblog.com/ Blog about Google’s efforts in Security has some good google stuff, but not much else. (took off top30 as it has less relevance for now. (2/22/24)
TrendMicro Security Intelligence Blog less updates. not so relevant any more (2/22/24)
White Hat Security Blog https://www.whitehatsec.com/blog/ White Hat security is a company that consults on application security – I have seen some of their researchers. lost some value as they do not keep up (2/22/24)
Realclearscience.com A site that puts together relevant links from many media outlets. (it lost some standing since it is not focused on cyber so much) (removed 2/22/24)
Moved since the pandemic hit -too few updates had to drop out of top30 IronGeek.com as it was the video repository for constant reviews of latest Security conferences. (01/27/23)
Removed Cyber Security Magazine unfortunately this link /website is no longer updating very much, so I will remove for a while (10/6/23)
Removed port swigger (04/14/23) as it went dark (decided to no longer update :
The Daily Swig Cybersecurity News and Views – https://portswigger.net/daily-swig This company put burpsuite on the market many years ago.
Securosis a blog with good content (sometimes does not post frequently) less frequency got to drop (01/27/23)
Removed Talos link due to lack of updates: Cisco’s Talos Blog Excellent threat research and more (1/29/22)
Removed Defenseone link no longer works (8/22/22)
https://security.googleblog.com/ Blog about Google’s efforts in Security has some good google stuff, but not much else.
http://www.freeforensics.org/ A blog started in March 2016 – about forensics and other topics (ransomware details)
moving IBM Security out of top 30 X-Force website and the blog page X-Force bloggers is good, but updated infrequently & pro IBM of course.
Also moved BugSEC as it is not updted often but is blog decent review of Cyber threats – from a security company in Israel
Could use this link in future…
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/list
Bitdefender LABS has some good posts (including new Ransomware tool https://labs.bitdefender.com/)
MUST SEE LINKS:
US-CERT: United States Computer Emergency Response team https://www.us-cert.gov
HIPAA: http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/understanding/srsummary.html PCI: https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/