Shodan: The scariest search engine on the Internet

[Chiefcrowe]

http://money.cnn.com/2013/04/08/technology/security/shodan/index.html?iid=HP_LN

 

[ithenoob]

Not sure if it's a good idea to share with every1 an extremely dangerous hacking tool....

 

[wirednuts]

A city's entire traffic control system was connected to the Internet and could be put into "test mode" with a single command entry.

well that makes sense. just use a web remote program on port 80.. everything will be fine.

 

[Danimal1209]

The US critical infrastructure security is known to be completely lacking, which is a shame.

 

[wirednuts]

The US critical infrastructure security is known to be completely lacking, which is a shame.

its laziness. we will fix it when a disaster happens.

 

[KirbyCodeMonkey]

While this news, it really isn't news. What is scary about it is the offering to the public. Anyone with a hard on to hurt someone is now able to work it, like friggin newbie terrorist.

 

[alkemyst]

While this news, it really isn't news. What is scary about it is the offering to the public. Anyone with a hard on to hurt someone is now able to work it, like friggin newbie terrorist.

No different than what the script kiddies had access too for decades now. Just dumbed down a level now.

 

[Nintendesert]

The US critical infrastructure security is known to be completely lacking, which is a shame.

The Federal government needs to tie all types of grants and funds to these kinds of institutions to compliance with security regulations and best practices. Withhold funds until the issue is fixed.

Network security however isn't a big deal to most though, you can see that even with private companies that do most business through the interwebs, they refuse to adequately staff IT departments nor pay for qualified people.

It's why groups like Anonymous are able to inflict so much damage, most everything out there is wide open. I used to be a big opponent to the whole attacking a company or government agency to show how weak their security was and to force them to fix the problem, it however seems like that's the ONLY way to force these companies and agencies to make any changes.