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American network security expert (born 1977)

For the English cricketer and educator, seeGordon Lyon (cricketer).

Gordon Lyon
Lyon at theHackers On Planet Earth (HOPE) number 6 conference in 2006
Born	1977 (age 47–48)
Other names	Fyodor Vaskovich
Known for	Nmap
Website	insecure.org/fyodor

Gordon Lyon (also known by his pseudonymFyodor Vaskovich)^[1] is an Americannetwork security expert,^[2] creator ofNmap and author of books, websites, and technical papers about network security. He is a founding member of theHoneynet Project and was Vice President ofComputer Professionals for Social Responsibility.

Personal life

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

Opposition to grayware

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In December 2011, Lyon published a post criticizing the fact thatDownload.com started bundlinggrayware 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

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

Websites

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Lyon maintains several network security web sites:

Nmap.Org – Host of theNmap 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

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

References

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^"! S a f e m o d e . o r g !". May 15, 2019. Archived fromthe original on May 15, 2019. RetrievedNovember 24, 2021.
^Leyden, John (October 5, 2012)."Experts troll 'biggest security mag in the world' with DICKish submission".The Register. RetrievedJanuary 17, 2021.
^"About me". RetrievedJanuary 17, 2021.
^Krebs, Brian (December 6, 2011)."Download.com Bundling Toolbars, Trojans?".Krebs on Security. RetrievedJanuary 17, 2021.
^Lyon, Gordon (June 27, 2012)."Download.com Caught Adding Malware to Nmap & Other Software". RetrievedJanuary 17, 2021.
^"Fyodor's Nmap Presentations". RetrievedJanuary 17, 2021.
^DEFCONConference (February 7, 2014)."DEF CON 13 - Fyodor, Hacking Nmap".YouTube.Archived from the original on December 13, 2021. RetrievedJanuary 17, 2021.
^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.
^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.
^Lyon, Gordon (2008).Nmap Network Scanning. Nmap Project.ISBN 978-0-9799587-1-7.