Shodan a Search Engine for Hackers (Beginner Tutorial)

Many people have described Shodan as a search engine for hackers, and have even called it "the world most dangerous search engine". A web search engine is a software system thats designed to search for information on the World Wide Web. As we all know, the information we usually get through search engines (like Google, Yahoo or Bing) is a mix of web pages, images and other types of files.

Lets Start with Shodan a Search Engine for Hackers

Understanding shodan is very important at first you might find it complex but once yu get to know it you will find it very handy in use and very resourcefull too. So, now let us learn how to work with fasinating search engine. To use shodan to your advantage you have

https://www.shodan.io/

Webcam

When you search for webcam, it will show you all the webcam present in the world. It will show the results as shown in the image below :

Traffic Signals

Searching about traffic signals or traffic signals camera then it will show you all the traffic surveillance camera present.

Cisco

Searching about cisco will show you all the cisco routers in the world but you can search them by country. Like, here, i have found cisco routers in India and result is below image :

Scada

You can also search about Scada and you will get its information around the whole world as shown :

netcam

Shodan can also show you about all the netcams in world and you can access them too with your hacking skills.

GPS

Shodan even lets you find all the GPS devices all over the world and for this you just have to type gps in the search box.

Port

Not only the devices but it can help find which port is open in which device. Now we all know this port is used for VPN so through this we can know which device is using VPN as shown in image below :

I hope you enjoyed this article.