Gordon Lyon

{{Short description|American network security expert (born 1977)}} {{about||the English cricketer and educator|Gordon Lyon (cricketer)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2021}} {{Infobox person | name = Gordon Lyon | image = Fyodor Hope6 Appelbaum 1100x1100.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = Lyon at the ''Hackers On Planet Earth'' (HOPE) number 6 conference in 2006 | birth_name = | birth_date = {{bya|1977}} | birth_place = | death_date =  | death_place = | body_discovered = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates =  | nationality = | citizenship = | other_names = Fyodor Vaskovich | known_for = Nmap | education = | alma_mater = | employer = | occupation = | years_active = | height = | title = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | opponents = | boards = | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | relations = | callsign = | awards = | signature = | website = {{URL|http://insecure.org/fyodor}} | footnotes = }} '''Gordon Lyon''' (also known by his pseudonym '''Fyodor Vaskovich''')<ref>{{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}}</ref> is an American network security expert,<ref>{{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}}</ref> 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.<ref name="Homepage">{{cite web |url=https://insecure.org/fyodor/ |title=About me |access-date=2021-01-17}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref name="fiasco">{{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}}</ref>

==Conferences== Lyon has presented at DEFCON, CanSecWest, FOSDEM, IT Security World, Security Masters' Dojo, ShmooCon, IT-Defense, SFOBug, and other security conferences.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://nmap.org/presentations/ |title=Fyodor's Nmap Presentations |access-date=2021-01-17}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>

==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'',<ref>{{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}}</ref> co-authored with other members of the Honeynet Project. * ''Stealing the Network: How to Own a Continent'',<ref>{{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}}</ref> co-authored with Kevin Mitnick and other hackers. * ''Nmap Network Scanning''<ref>{{cite book |title=Nmap Network Scanning |publisher=Nmap Project |year=2008 |isbn=978-0-9799587-1-7 |first=Gordon |last=Lyon}}</ref>

==See also== * W00w00

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * [https://insecure.org/fyodor/ Home page]

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