Gordon Lyon
American network security expert (born 1977)
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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.
Gordon Lyon | |
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Lyon at the Hackers On Planet Earth (HOPE) number 6 conference in 2006 | |
| Born | 1977 (age 48–49) |
| Other names | Fyodor Vaskovich |
| Known for | Nmap |
| Website | insecure |
Personal life
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
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; he accused them of using deception as well as copyright and trademark violation.[4][5]
Conferences
Websites
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
- 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]