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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:About Шаблон:Use mdy dates Шаблон:Infobox person 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]

See also

References

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External links

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