Gordon Lyon

{{Short description|American network security expert (born 1977)}}

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Gordon Lyon (also known by his pseudonym Fyodor Vaskovich){{Cite web|date=2019-05-15|title=! S a f e m o d e . o r g !|url=http://safemode.org/fyodor.html|access-date=2021-11-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190515010345/http://safemode.org/fyodor.html|archive-date=May 15, 2019}} is an American network security expert,{{cite news |url=https://www.theregister.com/2012/10/05/hakin9_silliness/ |title=Experts troll 'biggest security mag in the world' with DICKish submission |date=2012-10-05 |first=John |last=Leyden |publisher=The Register |access-date=2021-01-17}} 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

Lyon has been active in the network security community since the mid-1990s. His handle, "Fyodor", was taken from Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky.{{cite web |url=https://insecure.org/fyodor/ |title=About me |access-date=2021-01-17}} 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; his accusations included deception as well as copyright and trademark violation.{{cite web |url=https://krebsonsecurity.com/2011/12/download-com-bundling-toolbars-trojans/ |title=Download.com Bundling Toolbars, Trojans? |first=Brian |last=Krebs |author-link=Brian Krebs |work=Krebs on Security |date=2011-12-06 |access-date=2021-01-17}}{{cite web |url=https://insecure.org/news/download-com-fiasco.html |title=Download.com Caught Adding Malware to Nmap & Other Software |date=2012-06-27 |first=Gordon |last=Lyon |access-date=2021-01-17}}

Conferences

Lyon has presented at DEFCON, CanSecWest, FOSDEM, IT Security World, Security Masters' Dojo, ShmooCon, IT-Defense, SFOBug, and other security conferences.{{cite web |url=https://nmap.org/presentations/ |title=Fyodor's Nmap Presentations |access-date=2021-01-17}}{{cite web |title=DEF CON 13 - Fyodor, Hacking Nmap |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2BXeMTfrt0 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211213/V2BXeMTfrt0| archive-date=2021-12-13 |url-status=live|website=YouTube |author= DEFCONConference |date=2014-02-07 |access-date=2021-01-17}}{{cbignore}}

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,{{cite book |title=Know Your Enemy: Revealing the Security Tools, Tactics, and Motives of the Blackhat Community |author=The Honeypot Project |publisher=Addison-Wesley |year=2002 |isbn=0-201-74613-1}} co-authored with other members of the Honeynet Project.
Stealing the Network: How to Own a Continent,{{cite book |title=Stealing the Network: How to Own a Continent |publisher=Syngress |year=2004 |isbn=1-931836-05-1 |author1=((1131ah)) |first2=Russ |last2=Rogers |first3=Jay |last3=Beale |first4=Joe |last4=Grand |author-link4=Joe Grand |author5=Fyodor |author6=FX |first7=Paul |last7=Craig |first8=Timothy |last8=Mullen |first9=Tom |last9=Parker}} co-authored with Kevin Mitnick and other hackers.
Nmap Network Scanning{{cite book |title=Nmap Network Scanning |publisher=Nmap Project |year=2008 |isbn=978-0-9799587-1-7 |first=Gordon |last=Lyon}}