Gordon Lyon

Gordon Lyon
Lyon in San Francisco, California
Residence	Palo Alto, California
Other names	Fyodor Vaskovich
Known for	Nmap
Website
http://insecure.org/fyodor/

Gordon Lyon (also by his pseudonym Fyodor Vaskovich) is a network security expert, open source programmer, writer, and a hacker. He authored the open source Nmap Security Scanner and numerous books, web sites, and technical papers focusing on network security. Lyon is a founding member of the Honeynet Project and 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. Most of his programming is done in the C, C++, and Perl programming languages. He lives in Palo Alto, California.

Web sites

Lyon maintains several network security web sites:

• Nmap.Org — Documents the Nmap Security Scanner and provides it for download.
• 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

Lyon has written and co-authored several books:

• Know Your Enemy: Revealing the Security Tools, Tactics, and Motives of the Blackhat Community (Addison-Wesley, 2002, ISBN 0-201-74613-1), co-authored with other members of the Honeynet Project. A 2nd edition is now available (ISBN 0-321-16646-9), as are sample chapters.
• Stealing the Network: How to Own a Continent (Syngress, 2004, ISBN 1-931836-05-1). Hacker fiction, but tries to stay realistic. Co-authored with Kevin Mitnick and other hackers. Gordon's chapter is freely available online.
• Nmap Network Scanning (Nmap Project, 2008, ISBN 978-0979958717)

Interviews

Public interviews with Lyon/Vaskovich have been posted by SecurityFocus, Slashdot, Whitedust, Zone-H, TuxJournal, Safemode, and Google. Many of these provide more personal details than his official bio page does.

Conferences

Lyon attends and speaks at many security conferences. He has presented at DEFCON, CanSecWest, FOSDEM, IT Security World, Security Masters' Dojo, ShmooCon, IT-Defense, SFOBug, and others.

External links

• Home page

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Name	Lyon, Gordon
Alternative names	Vaskovich, Fyodor
Short description	network security expert, open source programmer, author
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