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Is this the world’s most dangerous search engine?
THE ‘scariest search engine’ is peering in the darkest corners of the internet and finding servers, webcams, traffic lights and even power plants open to anyone with a computer.
Shodan, dubbed the ‘search engine for hackers’ collects information on 500 million devices every month, CNN reports.
Traffic lights, security cameras and home automation systems are all hooked up to the internet and easy for the search engine to find. One cybersecurity expert even used it to find a hockey rink that could be defrosted, traffic lights for an entire city, and even the controls for a hydroelectric plant in France.
Simple searches on Shodan uncover system controls for a water park, a gas station, hotel wine cooler and crematorium, CNN reports. And some researchers have even found control systems for nuclear power plants and even a particle-accelerating cyclotron, as well as garage doors and lighting systems.
In a shocking security lapse, few of these devices even have passwords – because many were never supposed to be put online in the first place.
Read more: http://www.news.com.au/technology/shodan…z2Pz9g8ejx
2013-04-09 09:47:54
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