Archiv für Dezember 2021

The Internet looks different depending on where you live. The Chinese firewall is the classic example but there are lots of other instances as well. Many websites block traffic from countries in which they will never have customers. Data privacy concerns can require organizations to serve user requests from nearby

This year we rolled out the new main Shodan website and alongside it updated the look of all websites. There were a few specific goals that we had for the new look and feel:

• Reduce page sizes. The web is becoming increasingly bloated. Lets try to keep things lean.
• Remove

You want to learn more about Elastic clusters exposed to the Internet. You know that the Elastic service runs on port 9200 so you go ahead and search on Shodan for that port and you get nearly a million results. A quick glance shows that these results include:

• CDNs
• Honeypots

Shodan was originally designed as a tool to understand how technology use is changing on the Internet. The information collected from the Shodan crawlers would be able to provide users with a data-driven view of what the Internet looks like; i.e. not based on surveys or sampling of popular