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Fyodor is the Pseudonym of network security expert, open source programmer, writer, and self-proclaimed Hacker '''Gordon Lyon'''. He authored the open source Nmap Security Scanner and numerous books, web sites, and technical papers focusing on network security. Fyodor is a founding member of the Honeynet Project and Vice President of Computer Professionals For Social Responsibility .


PERSONAL LIFE

Fyodor 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

Fyodor maintains several network security web sites:
  • Nmap Security Scanner — Documents Nmap 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

Fyodor is working on a book about Nmap, named ''Nmap Network Scanning'' and has co-authored other 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. Fyodor's chapter is freely available online .



INTERVIEWS

Public interviews with Fyodor 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

Fyodor attends and speaks at many security conferences. He has presented at , IT-Defense , SFOBug , and others.


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