Editing Gordon Lyon

{{Short description|American network security expert (born 1977)}}
{{about||the English cricketer and educator|Gordon Lyon (cricketer)}}
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'''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|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 (programming language)|C]], [[C++]], and [[Perl]] programming languages.

==Opposition to grayware==
In December 2011, Lyon published a post criticizing the fact that [[Download.com]] started bundling [[Malware#Grayware|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>{{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 [[DEF CON (convention)|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 &ndash; Host of the [[Nmap]] security scanner and its documentation
* SecTools.Org &ndash; The top 100 network security tools (ranked by thousands of Nmap users)
* SecLists.Org &ndash; Archive of the most common security mailing lists
* Insecure.Org &ndash; 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|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==
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==External links==
* [https://insecure.org/fyodor/ Home page]

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