Gordon Lyon

Gordon Lyon
Gordon Lyon
	Lyon at the Hackers On Planet Earth (HOPE) number 6 conference in 2006
Born	1977 (age 47–48)
Other names	Fyodor Vaskovich
Known for	Nmap
Website	insecure.org/fyodor

Gordon Lyon (also known by his pseudonym Fyodor Vaskovich)^[1] is an American network security expert,^[2] 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.^[3] 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.^[4]^[5]

Conferences

Lyon has presented at DEFCON, CanSecWest, FOSDEM, IT Security World, Security Masters' Dojo, ShmooCon, IT-Defense, SFOBug, and other security conferences.^[6]^[7]

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,^[8] co-authored with other members of the Honeynet Project.
Stealing the Network: How to Own a Continent,^[9] co-authored with Kevin Mitnick and other hackers.
Nmap Network Scanning^[10]

References

^ "! S a f e m o d e . o r g !". May 15, 2019. Archived from the original on May 15, 2019. Retrieved November 24, 2021.
^ Leyden, John (October 5, 2012). "Experts troll 'biggest security mag in the world' with DICKish submission". The Register. Retrieved January 17, 2021.
^ "About me". Retrieved January 17, 2021.
^ Krebs, Brian (December 6, 2011). "Download.com Bundling Toolbars, Trojans?". Krebs on Security. Retrieved January 17, 2021.
^ Lyon, Gordon (June 27, 2012). "Download.com Caught Adding Malware to Nmap & Other Software". Retrieved January 17, 2021.
^ "Fyodor's Nmap Presentations". Retrieved January 17, 2021.
^ DEFCONConference (February 7, 2014). "DEF CON 13 - Fyodor, Hacking Nmap". YouTube. Archived from the original on December 13, 2021. Retrieved January 17, 2021.
^ The Honeypot Project (2002). Know Your Enemy: Revealing the Security Tools, Tactics, and Motives of the Blackhat Community. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-74613-1.
^ 1131ah; Rogers, Russ; Beale, Jay; Grand, Joe; Fyodor; FX; Craig, Paul; Mullen, Timothy; Parker, Tom (2004). Stealing the Network: How to Own a Continent. Syngress. ISBN 1-931836-05-1.
^ Lyon, Gordon (2008). Nmap Network Scanning. Nmap Project. ISBN 978-0-9799587-1-7.