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American network security expert, creator of Nmap, and founding member of the Honeynet Project.
Gordon Lyon (also known by his pseudonym Fyodor Vaskovich) is an American network security expert, 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.
Lore & Background
Lyon has been active in the network security community since the mid-1990s. His handle, "Fyodor", was taken from Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Most of his programming is done in the C, C++, and Perl programming languages. In December 2011, Lyon published a post criticizing Download.com for bundling grayware with their installation managers, expressing concerns that users might confuse Download.com-offered content for software offered by original authors; he accused them of using deception as well as copyright and trademark violation.
Reader's Guide
Lyon has co-authored several published books. 'Know Your Enemy: Revealing the Security Tools, Tactics, and Motives of the Blackhat Community' was co-authored with other members of the Honeynet Project. 'Stealing the Network: How to Own a Continent' was co-authored with Kevin Mitnick and other hackers. He also authored 'Nmap Network Scanning'. He is also a member of the W00w00 group.
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