Hacker-Friendly Search Engine that Lists Every Internet-Connected Device

Meet an all-new Hacker’s Search Engine similar to Shodan – Censys.



At the end of last month, security researchers from SEC Consult found that the lazy manufacturers of home routers and Internet of Things (IoT) devices have been re-using the same set of hard-coded cryptographic keys, leaving around 3 millions of IoT devices open to mass hijacking.



But how did the researchers get this

40,000 UnProtected MongoDB Databases Found on the Internet

Nearly 40,000 organisations running MongoDB, a NoSQL high performance and cross-platform document-oriented database, are found to be unprotected and vulnerable to hackers.



Three students from University of Saarland in Germany at the Centre for IT Security – Kai Greshake, Eric Petryka and Jens Heyens – discovered that MongoDB databases running at TCP port 27017 as a service on several