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Born | 1977 (age 46–47) |
Other names | Fyodor Vaskovich |
Known for | Nmap |
Website |
insecure |
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.
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.
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]
Lyon has presented at DEFCON, CanSecWest, FOSDEM, IT Security World, Security Masters' Dojo, ShmooCon, IT-Defense, SFOBug, and other security conferences. [6] [7]
Lyon maintains several network security web sites:
Gordon Lyon | |
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Born | 1977 (age 46–47) |
Other names | Fyodor Vaskovich |
Known for | Nmap |
Website |
insecure |
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.
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.
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]
Lyon has presented at DEFCON, CanSecWest, FOSDEM, IT Security World, Security Masters' Dojo, ShmooCon, IT-Defense, SFOBug, and other security conferences. [6] [7]
Lyon maintains several network security web sites: