Censys was created in 2017 by the developers of ZMAP. It helps users to discover, monitor, and analyze publicly available devices. Censys regularly explores every IP and popular domain names using ZMAP scans and collects this data to make it available through APIs or web interfaces. In this recipe, we will look at some of the ways to use Censys for recon.
Censys
How to do it...
- Visit https://censys.io/ in your browser, as shown in the following screenshot:
- We must be a logged-in user to perform detailed searches, which we will cover later in this recipe.
- If we want to look for a particular IP, we can simply paste the IP in the search bar. As we can see in the following screenshot, it will give us basic information about...
