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.
^The Honeypot Project (2002). Know Your Enemy: Revealing the Security Tools, Tactics, and Motives of the Blackhat Community. Addison-Wesley.
ISBN0-201-74613-1.
^1131ah; Rogers, Russ; Beale, Jay;
Grand, Joe; Fyodor; FX; Craig, Paul; Mullen, Timothy; Parker, Tom (2004). Stealing the Network: How to Own a Continent. Syngress.
ISBN1-931836-05-1.