Shodan is the world's first search engine to search for devices connected to the internet. It was launched in 2009 by John Matherly. Shodan can be used to look up webcams, databases, industrial systems, video games, and so on. Shodan mostly collects data on the most popular web services running, such as HTTP, HTTPS, MongoDB, FTP, and many more.
Using Shodan for fun and profit
Getting ready
To use Shodan we will need to create an account on Shodan.
How to do it...
To learn about Shodan, follow the given steps:
- Open your browser and visit https://www.shodan.io:
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