Gordon Lyon (also known by his pseudonym Fyodor Vaskovich) is an American network security expert, 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. 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.

Conferences

Lyon has presented at

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, CanSecWest, FOSDEM, IT Security World, Security Masters' Dojo, ShmooCon, IT-Defense, SFOBug, and other security 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'', co-authored with other members of the Honeynet Project. * ''Stealing the Network: How to Own a Continent'', co-authored with Kevin Mitnick and other hackers. * ''Nmap Network Scanning''

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External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lyon, Gordon Living people Writers about computer security American computer programmers Free software programmers American technology writers Writers from California 1977 births Hackers