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Monitor your external network, search the Internet of Things and perform empirical market research. You can also find us on

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@shodanhq
Shodan
5 years
Introducing Shodan Monitor: a new website to help you setup network alerts and keep track of what's connected to the Internet - and it's available at no additional cost to members:
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10 years ago @achillean launched the Shodan website! To celebrate a decade of discovery and growth we're going to offer the membership for $1 (marked down from $49) for the next 24 hours (0:00 UTC to 24:00 UTC):
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The Shodan Membership is on sale now for $5 until the end of Sunday, July 17th (GMT):
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Introducing nrich: a tool to quickly find the open ports and vulnerabilities for a list of IPs -
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Shodan now has more than 4 million users! To celebrate we are offering the membership at a discounted price of $4 for the next 24 hours:
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1 year
The $5 Membership sale is now live! The sale lasts until July 17 23:59 UTC:
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7 years
Yes, we're having a black friday sale :) $5 Shodan Membership instead of $49 and it will run from Friday through Monday
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3 years
Quickly check if your IP is exposing any ports to the Internet by visiting
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2 years
The Membership will be on sale for 24 hours this Sunday (GMT). Be prepared.
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4 years
Quickly check if your IP is exposing any ports to the Internet by visiting If you see a 404 page then you don't have anything exposed!
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6 years
The $5 Black Friday sale is returning and available from Friday through Monday
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Shodan
5 years
The offer has officially expired. Thank you again to everybody that has supported us over the years and we're excited about the next 10 years of Shodan :)
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Shodan
6 years
In the theme of @Defcon 26 we've created an 80s retro-futuristic version of Shodan - make sure to turn on the music :)
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6 years
How to use Shodan to Monitor your Internet-facing Network in Real-Time:
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2 years
Shodan extracts the text from screenshots so you can search across the content of the images:
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3 years
Introducing GeoNet: a free API to ping an IP or do DNS lookups from multiple locations around the world -
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5 years
How to setup network monitoring for your home IP in 4 easy steps using the Shodan CLI:
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2 years
The sale is now over. Thank you for all the support. If you missed the sale please follow us to get notified on our next promotion.
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2 years
The Membership sale will be live for 8 more hours. This is the only sale we'll be doing this year:
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Shodan
3 years
TLS 1.0 and 1.1 have officially been deprecated. Here are the websites that still support them:
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3 years
We're not running a black friday/ cyber monday special this year. We had a $4 special earlier this year to celebrate reaching 4 million users. If you'd like to get notified of special deals in the future please follow us on social media.
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Shodan
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Not sure what search filters are available? Check out our new filter reference page:
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Shodan
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nrich - A Tool for Fast IP enrichment:
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Quickly check if your IP is exposing anything to the Internet by visiting (a 404 means nothing found) You can also do it programmatically: curl
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3 years
Introducing the InternetDB API: fast IP lookups for open ports and vulnerabilities -
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6 years
Nearly 180,000 Chromecasts are directly connected to the Internet - most of them are located in South Korea:
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We've added detection for the recent F5 BIG-IP RCE (CVE-2020-5902). If you've configured Shodan Monitor () then you'll automatically get notified if any of your assets are vulnerable
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7 years
The Black Friday Sale is Live - Shodan Membership for $5 instead of $49:
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We've added detection for the Citrix vulnerability (CVE-2019-19781). If you've configured Shodan Monitor () then you will automatically get notified if any of your devices are impacted.
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Shodan
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Sign-up to Shodan with an academic email address (ex: .edu, .ac.uk) to receive an automatic, free upgrade! Don't have an academic TLD? Email academic @shodan .io for a manual upgrade
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Shodan
6 years
Shodan Membership is now on sale for $5 - more access to the website, API and a digital copy of the official Shodan book:
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Shodan
3 years
We added detection for the recent Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities. If you've configured Shodan Monitor () then you will automatically get a notification.
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Shodan
5 years
Shodan Monitor now lets you keep track of services based on a domain name! Simply enter the domain and we discover all subdomains, their IPs and then setup monitoring for them:
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Shodan
6 years
29 short videos that teach you how to use Shodan from the command-line:
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Shodan
3 years
The frontpage of our new website is now less than 500 KB. The new website also supports themes (including a dark mode), has an up-to-date list of filters, lets you explore facets and makes it easier to navigate the raw data:
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Shodan
4 years
PSA: Sorry, we aren't doing the black friday special this year.
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Shodan
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Added tracking of the Cisco IOS XE exposure to the Internet Exposure Observatory:
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Shodan
6 years
Checkout Shodan 2000 for a retro-futuristic way to explore newly-discovered devices:
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Shodan
4 years
Shodan checks whether a website has a security.txt file and shows it if available. Here's a quick glance at support for the proposed security.txt standard:
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Shodan
4 years
Announcing a few improvements to the search engine of Shodan:
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Shodan
3 years
Here's an overview of TeamViewer on the Internet:
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Shodan
3 years
More than 18% of Exchange servers remain unpatched for the ProxyShell vulnerability. Nearly 40% are vulnerable to CVE-2021-31206:
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Shodan
4 years
Shodan performs OCR on the screenshots and stores the information in the banner. This means you can search the text in the images:
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Shodan
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now also lets you lookup domains:
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Shodan
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Get notified in your Discord channel when a new port gets exposed to the Internet:
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Shodan
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Tip: If you use an academic email address (.edu, .ac.uk etc.) when signing up to Shodan you will automatically receive a free upgrade!
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2 years
Service has been fully restored.
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Shodan
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A map of Citrix devices that are vulnerable to CVE-2019-19781
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Shodan has specialized crawlers that pretend to be infected desktops in order to find command & control servers. Want to help out? Learn more about our Malware Hunter initiative:
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Shodan
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Nearly 100,000 industrial control systems connected to the Internet at the moment:
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Shodan Maps has a new look and now also supports the dark theme:
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Map of industrial control systems that are exposed to the Internet. The USA has by far the most exposed devices:
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Shodan
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Use our Chrome extension to quickly see the open ports of the website you're visiting:
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More than 72,000 remote desktop servers in the U.S. are vulnerable to BlueKeep:
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Shodan
5 years
We won't be running a Black Friday/ Cyber Monday deal this year. The 10-year anniversary promotion on Nov 23 was the only special deal for this year.
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Shodan
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Shodan 2000 is still getting updated with new data! Explore the Internet in style:
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Shodan
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Introducing a dark mode for the new Shodan websites (including )! Enable it by changing your theme from your account settings page:
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Shodan
2 years
The InternetDB API provides fast IP lookups for open ports and vulnerabilities - for free! Check it out at
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Shodan
3 years
The new InternetDB API lets you do fast IP lookups for free without an API key. And you can quickly check if your current IP has open ports exposed to the Internet by running the command: curl
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Shodan
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Public @MongoDB instances are exposing 24 TB of data, @Elastic clusters are exposing 904.8 TB and HDFS a whopping 5.1 PB:
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Shodan
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An overview of the VMware ESXi versions exposed to the Internet:
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Introducing Shodan Trends - Discover how the Internet has changed over time:
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Shodan
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Did you know that Shodan keeps a full history for every IP it's ever seen on the Internet? You can browse the information using the new website. And we've improved the Raw Data tab so you can minimize sections of data and skip to specific ports:
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Shodan keeps a full history for every IP it's ever seen. If you're a member you can see the historical data on the beta website (or API). For example, identify when a service was hit with ransomware:
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Shodan
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Free Membership upgrade for students that sign-up to Shodan with their academic email address:
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Explore the Internet using Favicons: the bigger the icon the more devices of that type are on the Internet -
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Ship Tracker: A real-time map of ships that are broadcasting their location to the Internet -
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How many servers are vulnerable to BlueKeep in your country? We've added tracking of BlueKeep, EternalBlue and Heartbleed to the Internet Exposure dashboards:
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Shodan
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Images on Shodan 2000 are glitching now:
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Shodan
4 years
Not sure how to get started with Shodan search queries? Check out a list of examples on our new website:
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Shodan
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Love the command-line? Here's a list of useful Shodan CLI snippets:
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Shodan
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Yikes, thousands of compromised databases in the U.S. alone. Check out the Internet Exposure Dashboards to see how many there are for your country:
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Shodan
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Want to monitor your public network range and get notified if something unexpected shows up? Check out our private firehose feature available through the API and command-line:
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Shodan
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If you purchased the Black Friday sale then you also got a complementary gift code that gives somebody else a free Shodan Membership. Check your account page for the code:
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Qualys integrates with Shodan to help map the external attack surface:
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Are you exposing any services to the Internet from your current IP? Check yourself via or on the command-line using "curl "
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Explore the Internet in style - Shodan 2000 is constantly updated with fresh data:
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if you get a 404 error page then no open ports were found!
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Mexico has been added to our Internet exposure dashboards:
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An overview of BGP services accessible over the Internet:
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Use our Zeek integration to block connections from remote IPs based on what they're running (ex. block access from vulnerable IPs):
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Explore or share one-line commands using the Shodan Snippets website:
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Introducing the Internet Exposure Observatory: dashboards to monitor the network exposure of countries -
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Give your eyes a break when browsing Shodan at night. Enable the Dark theme in your account settings:
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Shodan
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Use "shodan radar" to watch in real-time as services are added to Shodan (requires upgraded API plan):
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Shodan
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Need more #outrun in your life? Check out Shodan 2000 for a retro-futuristic way to browse the Internet:
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Shodan
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The Membership sale is now over!
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Shodan
1 year
The $5 Membership sale is now live! The sale lasts until July 17 23:59 UTC:
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Not sure what information the Shodan API returns for an IP? Check out the raw data tab on the beta website to view all the available data
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The number of industrial control systems connected to the Internet has remained above 100,000 for a while now:
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Shodan
4 years
We've added JARM fingerprinting and with it introduce a new "ssl.jarm" property/ filter/ facet. Here's a breakdown of the current values for JARM fingerprints in Shodan: (h/t @4A4133 and @SalesforceEng )
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Shodan
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@harguilar @achillean it's a one-time payment for a lifetime account upgrade. there's no subscription
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Shodan
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Want to query Shodan like it's a SQL database? Check out the new Steampipe integration:
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@saurinn_ one-time purchase for a lifetime account upgrade. it's not a subscription.
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We've updated the Shodan CLI with a new command to help you download all available data for your monitored IPs/ networks. Update the CLI (pip install -U shodan) to get access to this new command: shodan alert download <filename>
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Introducing the InternetDB API:
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New release of nrich (0.3.0) now supports the output formats ndjson for streaming workflows (ex. pipe to jq) and regular json when you want to create a single JSON object:
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Improvements to the IP information page on Shodan:
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