[Falkirk] 1st search engine for Internet-connected devices

[Craig Skinner]

His ISP wrote:

"Dude you have several hundred abuse emails,
what the fuck are you doing?"

Wired wrote:

"Shodan's big lesson is that the internet is more diverse than we think.
Think webserver, and you'll probably think of Apache or Microsoft, or
maybe Nginx, but Shodan's database of nearly 144 million webservers
shows that they're not the only ones out there - not by a long shot.
According to Shodan, Microsoft's Internet Information Server, or IIS,
runs about 8.5 million web servers, but that's dwarfed by one most
people have never heard of: Allegro Software Development's RomPager,
which runs on more than 22 million machines. IIS may run big websites
such as MSN.com, but RomPager runs on millions of routers, switches, and
printers."

CNN wrote:

"He found a car wash that could be turned on and off and a hockey rink
in Denmark that could be defrosted with a click of a button. A city's
entire traffic control system was connected to the Internet and could be
put into "test mode" with a single command entry. And he also found a
control system for a hydroelectric plant in France with two turbines
generating 3 megawatts each."

The BBC wrote:

"The US government has told thousands of companies to beef up protection
of computers which oversee power plants and other utilities.
The action comes after a survey revealed that thousands of these systems
can be found online.
The survey was carried out via a publicly available search engine that
pinpointed computers controlling critical infrastructure.
In total, the survey uncovered more than 500,000 potential targets."

http://www.shodan.io