Shodan is a search engine that allows the user find specific types of computers connected to the internet using a kind of filters. In their own words, it is the world’s first computer search engine, often dubbed as the search engine for hackers. We can use Shodan to find different types of information about a target.
Let’s do a search on web servers running Microsoft IIS running version 7.0 through Shodan:
Shodan presented us with a page listing entries it has in its database. Shodan provides a very decent and useful way to filter our result by the following criterion:
– TOP COUNTRIES
– TOP SERVICES
– TOP ORGANIZATIONS
– TOP OPERATING SYSTEMS
– TOP PRODUCTS
