Gordon Lyon

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Gordon Lyon
Born 1977 (age 46–47)
Other names Fyodor Vaskovich
Known for Nmap
Website insecure .org /fyodor

Gordon Lyon (also known by his pseudonym Fyodor Vaskovich ) [1] is an American network security expert, [2] creator of Nmap and author of books, websites, and technical papers about network security. He is a founding member of the Honeynet Project and was Vice President of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility .

Personal life [ edit ]

Lyon has been active in the network security community since the mid-1990s. His handle, "Fyodor", was taken from Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky . [3] Most of his programming is done in the C , C++ , and Perl programming languages.

Opposition to grayware [ edit ]

In December 2011, Lyon published a post criticizing the fact that Download.com started bundling grayware with their installation managers and expressing concerns users confusing Download.com-offered content for software offered by original authors; his accusations included deception as well as copyright and trademark violation. [4] [5]

Conferences [ edit ]

Lyon has presented at DEFCON , CanSecWest, FOSDEM , IT Security World, Security Masters' Dojo, ShmooCon , IT-Defense, SFOBug, and other security conferences. [6] [7]

Websites [ edit ]

Lyon maintains several network security web sites:

  • Nmap.Org – Host of the Nmap security scanner and its documentation
  • SecTools.Org – The top 100 network security tools (ranked by thousands of Nmap users)
  • SecLists.Org – Archive of the most common security mailing lists
  • Insecure.Org – His main site, offering security news/updates, exploit world archive, and other misc. security resources

Published books [ edit ]

  • Know Your Enemy: Revealing the Security Tools, Tactics, and Motives of the Blackhat Community , [8] co-authored with other members of the Honeynet Project .
  • Stealing the Network: How to Own a Continent , [9] co-authored with Kevin Mitnick and other hackers.
  • Nmap Network Scanning [10]

See also [ edit ]

References [ edit ]

  1. ^ "! S a f e m o d e . o r g !" . May 15, 2019. Archived from the original on May 15, 2019 . Retrieved November 24, 2021 .
  2. ^ Leyden, John (October 5, 2012). "Experts troll 'biggest security mag in the world' with DICKish submission" . The Register . Retrieved January 17, 2021 .
  3. ^ "About me" . Retrieved January 17, 2021 .
  4. ^ Krebs, Brian (December 6, 2011). "Download.com Bundling Toolbars, Trojans?" . Krebs on Security . Retrieved January 17, 2021 .
  5. ^ Lyon, Gordon (June 27, 2012). "Download.com Caught Adding Malware to Nmap & Other Software" . Retrieved January 17, 2021 .
  6. ^ "Fyodor's Nmap Presentations" . Retrieved January 17, 2021 .
  7. ^ DEFCONConference (February 7, 2014). "DEF CON 13 - Fyodor, Hacking Nmap" . YouTube . Archived from the original on December 13, 2021 . Retrieved January 17, 2021 .
  8. ^ The Honeypot Project (2002). Know Your Enemy: Revealing the Security Tools, Tactics, and Motives of the Blackhat Community . Addison-Wesley. ISBN   0-201-74613-1 .
  9. ^ 1131ah; Rogers, Russ; Beale, Jay; Grand, Joe ; Fyodor; FX; Craig, Paul; Mullen, Timothy; Parker, Tom (2004). Stealing the Network: How to Own a Continent . Syngress. ISBN   1-931836-05-1 .
  10. ^ Lyon, Gordon (2008). Nmap Network Scanning . Nmap Project. ISBN   978-0-9799587-1-7 .

External links [ edit ]

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