Using Shodan for fun and profit
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.
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:
- We begin by performing a simple search for the FTP services running. To do this we can use the following Shodan dorks:
port:"21"
. The following screenshot shows the search results:
- This search can be made more specific by specifying a particular country/organization:
port:"21" country:"IN"
. The following screenshot shows the search results:
- We can now see all the FTP servers running in India; we can also see the servers that allow anonymous...