Shodan: the search engine for sleeping babies

[Kevin Lancaster]

Shodan: the search engine for sleeping babies

Ars Technica has reported that Shodan now lets users browse vulnerable webcams – yielding alarming results.

 

[Ninja'd]

Shodan as in System Shock's Shodan? Yikes

 

[Kosmik]

Shodan as in System Shock's Shodan? Yikes

Thought it sounded familiar.

 

[ToxicBunny]

That is actually more than mildly disturbing...

 

[Jan]

Shodan as in System Shock's Shodan? Yikes

Look at you, hacker. A pathetic creature of meat and bone. Panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect immortal machine?

 

[raind33r]

I'm not using anything below Sandan level, I mean...Shodan is just so entry level - right?

 

[The_Librarian]

If you don't put your webcams (and other IoT thingamajiggies) behind a proper firewall, then you deserve the hurt that is coming to you.

 

[supersunbird]

If you don't put your webcams (and other IoT thingamajiggies) behind a proper firewall, then you deserve the hurt that is coming to you.

I just uninstall the drivers...

 

[access]

many years ago, when the internet was an infant, you could enter a string into any browser that would return with unsecure webcam addresses.

i was thinking about this recently actually, cant remember what it was that you had to use, like ftp:// or http:// there was something for the webcams.

can anyone remember this?