Gordon Lyon
Template:Short description Template:About Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox person Gordon Lyon (also known by his pseudonym Fyodor Vaskovich)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> is an American network security expert,<ref>Template:Cite news</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 lifeEdit
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">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Most of his programming is done in the C, C++, and Perl programming languages.
Opposition to graywareEdit
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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="fiasco">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
ConferencesEdit
Lyon has presented at DEFCON, CanSecWest, FOSDEM, IT Security World, Security Masters' Dojo, ShmooCon, IT-Defense, SFOBug, and other security conferences.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}Template:Cbignore</ref>
WebsitesEdit
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 booksEdit
- Know Your Enemy: Revealing the Security Tools, Tactics, and Motives of the Blackhat Community,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> co-authored with other members of the Honeynet Project.
- Stealing the Network: How to Own a Continent,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> co-authored with Kevin Mitnick and other hackers.
- Nmap Network Scanning<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>