We start with a demonstration of the Shodan website. First,
we'll access the website at shodan.io.
Then, we'll walk through some of the key features of the site,
including the help documentation, account registration,
login to the site, search, and an image search feature.
I'll conduct the series of demonstrations on the current version
of Kali Linux because Kali includes the Shodan command‑line
client. Here is the main page for Shodan.
You can see there's a simple search box at the top.
Before we start searching, let's highlight some key features.
The first place I like to go for any new tool is the documentation.
Shodan includes some good help resources. Here you'll find
some great information on using Shodan.
In addition to this course, you may also find this set of documentation helpful.
You should consider a registered account to get
access to more Shodan capabilities.
Without an account,
you're limited to a small number of plain text
searches. After you register your account,
you should consider joining at the membership level.
It has a $49 one‑time fee, but it's for the lifetime of the account.
Sometimes during the year you can find that fee as low as $1.
Membership is also free for higher education users.
Let's log into the site from the main page.
If you login from there,
you are presented with a dashboard of helpful
information, what you'll want to explore.
Now we can begin our searching. Enter your search
terms and filters in the search box.
You can immediately see results of the search.
One other interesting capability of Shodan is the images feature.
As Shodan searches, it captures screenshots and images from
Remote Desktop Protocol and VNC‑enabled systems, as well as
images from surveillance cameras.
You can either select images with your current search
parameters, or any image collected by Shodan. Next, we'll take a
look at the command‑line tool for Shodan.