Happy 10-Year Anniversary!
10 years ago on Nov 23, 2019 I launched Shodan: The idea was simple: create a repository of metadata about public devices on the Internet and »
Security Researchers Find Vulnerable IoT Devices and MongoDB Databases Exposing Corporate Data
At Shodan we’re always interested in seeing how researchers are using the search engine. Recently, Martin Hron wrote an Avast blog post detailing his experience »
Analyzing Post-WannaCry SMB Exposure
It's been a month since the WannaCry ransomware attack wrecked havoc across Windows networks via SMB and I'd like to take a moment to review where »
Measuring the Minecraft Playerbase
For fun I decided to see whether I can figure out how many Minecraft players are online at the moment. And it turns out that it's »
The HDFS Juggernaut
There's been much focus on MongoDB, Elastic and Redis in terms of data exposure on the Internet due to their general popularity in the developer community. »