Google is a search engine for human readable content. Shodan does the same for machine readable content.
You can:
- search for specific IP addresses, and it will show you the active ports, and running services.
- search for a specific response header in the set of countries
- browse through the screenshots of open VNC & RDP
- open webcams
- and more…
The free accounts can use any feature, but the list of results is limited. But if you really want to look under the deck of the internet, the subscription is worth it.
Well, for one they don’t make it easy to be able to block them. For another, they basically advertise intrusion vectors to would-be nefarious actors.
Is this an ad? Good news everyone we’re becoming more like Reddit every day!
I’m not affiliated with the company in any way, there’s not even a reflink. I just find the service useful and fun.
At first I wasn’t sure whether to post it here or not, but since it’s certainly more tech related than the business model of twitter and reddit, which is being discussed here pretty often, I decided to go for it.
I really hate Shodan and Censys.
Well I guess I got it during that last sale because I’m already a member. Cool
I don’t think I’ve actually ever used it though
Same thing happened to me few years back. I forgot I got the membership last time there was a promotion :D
I’ve used it in the past to pirate foreign broadcast TV, but lately I just occasionally check my own stuff, or our customers stuff when there’s a problem. It’s nicer than nmap, and good enough for the initial part of the analysis.
pirate foreign broadcast TV
I wish to subscribe to your newsletter. I’m guessing a search for open RTMP ports, geolocation, and a few other criteria?
Website must be getting hammered, because I can’t navigate anywhere.
