Why is the ice melting on Denmark hockey rinks?
I just found out there’s a search engine out there now that makes Google’s look like child’s play. If it were to get into the wrong hands, it could cause significant damage to a lot of stuff. In fact, it’s potentially such a strong weapon that authorities are using it to determine what is vulnerable so that they can shore up security breeches before bad guys get a hold of it.
It’s called Shodan and it was created by a guy named John Matherly as a “pet project.” While Google and other search engines crawl the Internet looking for websites, Shodan navigates the Internet looking for the servers, webcams, printers, routers and other things connected to the Internet.
Because Shodan collects information on approximately 500 million connected devices and services every month, it can find pretty much everything, including traffic light systems, security cameras and heating systems, as long as they’re connected to the Internet. Cyber security researchers have even used it to find command and control systems for nuclear plants and a particle-accelerating cyclotron.
If a system found by Shodan has no security or easy-to-figure out passwords, it is vulnerable to attack. And that could happen if Shodan were being used by the wrong person. One security penetration tester demonstrated that with the click of a button he could defrost an ice rink in Denmark or turn off a hydroelectric plant in France.
Right now, security professionals are using Shodan to spot unsecured connected devices and then alert the operators that they are vulnerable to attack. CNN Money recently wrote an article about this that you can read here. It’s a frightening world out there, people.
This is the first I’ve heard of Shodan. Were you familiar with it? Let me know what you think should be done with a search engine that has so much potential for doing damage. If you were in charge of trying to keep bad guys from using Shodan to infiltrate important city and government infrastructure, what would you do? Looking forward to hearing from you regarding this intriguing subject.
This is one of the issues with the IOT (Internet Of Things) movement. Smart devices/appliances connected to the internet. It opens up people and their homes to hacking via devices that they bought for convience. You never know how this may be used/abused.
Finally, something I can professionally comment on. I have been in IT for over 30 years, both in Software Development for Application and Communications Network software – I mean the lowest communication levels and at chip level throughout the intranet and internet, plus I have been in Electronic since I was 12 years old as a hobbyist, so I have a expert knowledge of this. This is NOT the end of the world. A lot of these Pirate programs sit out there and ping I.P. addresses (that’s the unique address that each device has on the internet) to see if it gets a response. Many of you know this, because your router has a setting that says “Respond to Pings”. When this is off, and someone sends a ping to your address, nothing answers back. There are other protocols that can be used to discover what devices are connected at a location, suffice to say – any given device – unless it has a built in webpage interface, requires the communicating program to know the sequence of commands to take control of it, and what port (another designator at your location) to talk to. And that could be anything, especially if it is a PLC (Programmable Line Controller). These are small computers that allow you to remotely control relays and such – but you still need to know the handshake protocol to make them talk – and these are the things I believe they are talking about – turning relays off & such. This also doesn’t include any passwords that have been setup on the connection – many devices which automatically disconnect the “connection” after three failed attempts, and then stalls the port for 5 minutes after that – which makes it virtually impossible to brute force a password attack. Are there vulnerabilities – yes, and every time you close one hole, you usually open others. So it’s a game of Cat and Mouse. But, it a lot harder than they make you think. We aren’t talking about a kid writing e-mail viruses – this requires intimate knowledge of the device you are connected to, if you can guess what it is. Some devices automatically respond with what and who they are when you connect to them, like printers when you plug them into a network – they respond to a role call that might be issued – but I seriously doubt a connection into a nuclear facility would do that. More than likely the Pirate program would identify an active I.P. address, and that’s it.
Not to question your knowledge or ability, but for those of you who want more information about what has been found out there in “Cyber World”, please see the video at the following link about Cyber Warfare – very informative.
Link: http://video.pbs.org/video/2365582515/
Once this Shodan is loosed it can never again be covered up. Some devious or just curious would just loose it again ,and this would happen repeatedly. Mankind needs to wise up and the care of each other and praise the LORD , for then and only then can this world exist and last for any time at all, Take stock of yourselves….we are all to blame for the shape the world is in and some more then others but all of are to blame. Get ready for the end for it comes like a thief in the night and it and our LORD are on the way. The stage has been set……..Will you die for him or yourselves?
Maybe this has been leaked to create a fear amongst us so that we roll over & allow the government to take total control of the internet, etc as they are proposing? Just food for thought…I don’t believe much of anything that comes out of DC, no matter who they are, I don’t personally know any of them!! Seems ulterior motives are everywhere these days. Maybe it’s to pose a challenge to the hackers to find a way to contain it’s fall out, maybe it’s to reverse-hack the hackers? We most likely will never know the truth, the whole truth & nothing but the truth.
There is no way of knowing how many people got my many messages telling them it is not Political it is between Good and Bad, Life and Death, Satan against Almighty GOD. YES ! we are in the End Times and make no mistake about it JESUS CHRIST is going to make his appearence very soon but only in his time ! Bible prophecy is 100% correct so bank on it ! Are you a Child Of GOD ? If so we will be taken up but the Dead will will be taken up first and we will be accompany them in the Air ! Let’s face it . It is for all of us to Die at least once ! This is what all people have to know ? Not all will be taken up ! GOD gave us the privilege to choose right from wrong ! If you don’t know the LORD YOUR GOD ! You will be on your own ! It is your choice ! No one knows at what hour he will come ? You might want to ask JESUS to Forgive you of all your Sins and ask him TO COME INTO YOUR HEART AND LIVE HIS LIFE IN YOU !
Right on Brother… see you in the air!
Whatever is tried won’t work. There is no law or technique that can keep this from being used for ill, if someone wants to. The only answer sounds unrealistic, but it isn’t. The problem: Realistic is precisely what it is! Humankind is going to have to realign our principals, mend our fences get our act together as the neighborly animal God created us to be, or say good-bye. In other words it is crunch time! We will shape up or truly ship out. As for all the talk of the Christ dropping down out of the sky by cosmic helicopter to rescue us, forget it. The Christ returned and left again 170 yrs ago. He told us (again!), what to do, and living like humans instead of animals is OUR task and responsibility, not somebody else’s, even God’s. Sorry, folks there isn’t any other way. Humankind must grow up and stop acting like adolescents. Fast.
praise God time for our Lord to return!
There is no such thing as a completely secure system, including machinery that has no connections. If a person with criminal intent can access it (even mechanically), it can cause damage. The next best thing is to contain the risk and weigh the benefits associated with the risk of misuse. Another concept that has worked in the past is mutually assured reprisal (read that destruction). If a bad guy realizes that any action he or she causes will trigger a reaction that is far worse than the expected benefit, that reality deters them from doing bad things. Unfortunately, the connection issue provides a weapon that hides both their location and identity. If a radical believes that he or she can lose their life and still receive a greater reward in an after-life, no deterrent is possible. That is the situation we find ourselves in today.
I think they should destroy it so no one can use it.
Hey, everyone out there even if they did make that program, and no matter what people we put in the government you’re never going to get rid of greed, or corruption ,why you ask it’s called Money Talks and everything else Walks. And there will be the Have’s Versus the Have not’s. And that won’t change until Jesus comes back to earth. Yes We are in the last days, Once Judgement day comes then you’ll see things change But until then Get Ready. Read you’re Bibles , Pray Like you’ve never prayed before.
Caitlyn, how are you going to tear out a microchip from your brain?? I saw a video showing that the technology is already there to attach microchip to brain tissue…and the chip and brain tissue can communicate! We are indeed living in the last days. Jesus said that knowledge would be increased. Unfortunately it will be misused. Better read that Revelations book folks. Time is running out.
Amen.
This is just an offshoot of knowledge that the “bad” guys have known about for a long time. See the project called “Internet Census 2012,” and lookat their development code…it’s been being worked on as an offshoot of various hackers tools for a long time, and those tools were around a long time before that. So the fact that LEOs are just now using this tool is mind boggling to me…it’s actually too bad they’re finding out, as white hat hackers will be needed gravely in the future tyranno-wars…
Everything that looks as if it will be harmful to the good citizens of this great country is or will be under the control of the illegal president and his admin. You can call us that believe this any name you care to drum up however, if you do not know what liberty means you will surely know when you loose it. A large scale revolt with our military in command is now our only hope. We need to stop this turd of a man from completely ruining THE GREATEST NATION ON GOD’S GREEN EARTH
You call him illegal, I say Obama was the Illegal one. Look it up, Traveled to Pakistan while it was on no fly list – Whose Passport? Govt grant as a Foreign student. Can’t be natural born Citizen and get that. Has used at least 3 SSN’s, Illegal as hell.
Trump was elected by those of us SICK of the Bullshit. Look at a map bycounty, it becomes clear what the issue is. Then look at the same map on crime from the FBI. Massive similarity in locations. So from that I get that Criminals and those living on the earnings of others vote Democratic. GET OVER IT.
Why not have the local government go off grid? It may seem a dream, one day they would have wish they had.
Can you imagine what would happen with elections in the wrong hands. Voter fraud would be unbelievable!
What do you mean ” would be”? Already is! If Hillary Clinton is allowed to run and heaven forbid gets elected, you should be convinced that the system is totally broken.
People, People, People, Why aren’t you surprised that there is a computer program that can determine what system is attached to the World Wide Web? Where in Blue Blazes do you think the Television show “Person of Interest” comes from.
Over a hundred years ago it was a dream come true; when air flight became a reality. A new are of inventions like: aeroplanes, jets, missiles, and rockets into outer space, all because man had a dream.
Now we have computers, machines that can think for themselves. So why not have machines that can track down those accessing to the internet? What ever man dreams of, he can make it come true, in time. It is that, which we are so afraid of, isn’t it, someone that has a dream of enslaving his fellow human beings. It has been tried, it has been done, and it has failed.
So now the cat is out of the bag. what can we do about it? But yet, there is something even darker and more vile than can be imagined yet to come. You think it is here in the good ole US of A, but, it is not. The USSAR, and China and the European governments have been working on their own little programs to undermine systems in other countries. Yes that means our county. For example, why has China has been spying on everyone in a desperate attempt to bring itself into the 21st century. Or Russia in its desperation to keep tabs on everyone and every thing. That is not to say that France, England, Germany, Japan, Israel and the Arab countries haven’t been trying to gain in the world market place for the same information and spying.
So what are we going to do? Refuse to move forward in the 21st century. We will not only get our butts handed to us but we will fall behind the rest of the world. Perhaps we should be the creator of the new and better mouse trap. At lease, we will know what to expect. We call the tune that others must dance to.
I would like to think that we will take the higher road. Create a system that the world can use without enslaving ourselves. It will take great convection, fortitude and a morality that no one can object to. Until this occurs we will be victims of our own follies.
I THINK WE ARE BEYOND GETTING OUR FREEDOM BACK. IT WILL TAKE A CIVIAL UNREST AND A REVOLUTION TO GET ANYWHERE IN THIS COUNTRY. THEY NEED TO FIND A VIRUS THAT KILLS A VIRUS, NOT JUST SOFTWARE THAT FINDS IT, OR BLOCKS IT. THIS COULD BE THE CATALIST TOO DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY.
Amen brother
If we get taken by China, there’s a certain President that has left his mark (on a blue dress) that should be tried as a war criminal… it will have been his fault.
I thinkt hat its possible for that to happen. The dems are not going to play fair. They want to stay in control.
I like that thought, to be the ones to invent the better mousetrap! Everyone has always spied on everyone so why not be the best?
No surprise there. Sorros and all other satanists/ illuminati crave that in their quest for “global enslavement”.
I work at a data center for an investment bank. We at present have none of our cooling or generating equipment in a position to be contaminated by the internet. In answer however to the question of who would be idiot enough to hoook their stuff to the net-try unknowing and micromanaging
Well said!!! I believe frankly, that the membership base for the patriot communications should be accessable outside the web. I know HAM radios get frequencies assigned to the owner for a fee. I’m not computer savvy but there must be a way to communicate nationally with computers using something other than the web. I’m sure many patriot members have skill assisting with this. Sure be nice to communicate with some privacy
Yes – there IS a way to use computers to communicate off the reguular web. It’s called a MESH network.
Thank goodness for our massive member network!
kill it now before Obama or his boss soros gets their hands on it, or some of those other one world gov. types.
the first thing that comes to mind is why the hell would you ever make this info public in the first place??? now the first thing hacker=s will do is try to bust into the system and screw with it.
True!!! They have turned it into a challenge by making this public, unless they really already have it in hand & are trying reverse-hack the hackers..here or abroad. Yeah, I can get kinda conspiracy theory on ya because I put nothing past ANY government or peoples…greed runs this planet
Tell this person John Matherly to destroy his program called Shodn before its to late or go to jail for a while
Like any potential weapon, in the right hands it can be powerful protection. In the wrong hands it can destroy us. The key is to elect honorable people, which means we need some change in Washington DC right now.
Really? Well good luck with that fantasy
Ever wonder why our nations capital isn’t inside our borders?
To bad this information can’t be destroyed. Eventually it will fall into the wrong hands. Power like this corrupts. Even the “good guys”.
That’s what I’m getting out of this, Ms.Susan…lol, a nervous laugh & I find it “Crazy to thing” that in this day & age, we can’t stop this activity!!!??? It’s almost as somebody wants it to happen so then can take more rights from the “Good Honest People” who work & pay Taxes? Seems like a list of “Sites” that either are Allowed in or Denied should have been in
practice many years ago!! Any “Slight Red Flag” we cut the connection And “All hands on Deck to run all
Systems Checkup, RIGHT THEN! YES, it’s that important to do & those who don’t think so, NEED to go & find another job. This is Serious and WHY in 2014
are we hearing of this. I would think after the year of 2000 and knowing how bad an even t might have happened due to a calendar, we’d know of these issues and “Get on Top of it, NOW”, not tomorrow or after bad has happened!! Just like we knew of 9/11 9months before it hit, yet NO ONE did a thing!??? If so, please name them but you have my idea on this.
Be “Proactive” with such dangerous things or shut down “Radioactive Power” !! Japan is polluting the entire Pacific & now the West Coast & I’ll guess we’ll wait til we do more damages here. All our plants are 40-50 years old, past the expiration dates they’re designed to go. I had to Aunts who were “Engineer’s” in these plants, both in Tenn. Plants & both died early,
off Cancers….I wonder?? I’m worried for our kids, is all
Donald, the problem with “Good Honest People” is that they sit back and complain on computers, and not sit in White House Oval Offices.
If we all got together and “voted your conscious” how many of us are truly democrat or republican? YET, how many of us are STILL LISTED as one of them?
IF all of got together and ACTUALLY did the “good honest guy” thing, then we’d all be a single unit voting for the “White Hat” and maybe, for once, he or she would get elected.
By the way, in case you’re wondering, I suspect most of us are actually Libertarian, but “no one actually registers or votes Libertarian, or we’d divide vote for the other guy and the guy we DON’T want would get IN!”. How many times have we heard that argument? *laugh* Maybe if we stopped screwing around and we ALL got together and voted for one party, we’d get one vote, and we’d get OUR guy in.
Fates forbid.
The Government will get there hands on this and co – hearse the creators just like they did with Face Book and Google! Or at least get them to work hand in hand with the Government. There’s your enemy! This Government is power grabbing every freedom imaginable and I don’t see them stopping ever! Absolute power corrupts ABSOLUTELY! Also keep in mind this Government has Globalist intentions Unless we stop them somehow!
Ok, yes I am concerned as well as all should be. So here we are with a new system that can reek havoc with us and our supposedly secure hydro systems and whatnot. Yes I understand the true events that can come from these. the only problem I can see is that yes we squelch this Shodan System and wow we fixed our security once again, great! Is it really, as if this can be created by someone, don’t you also thinks some other computer wizard can conjure up another system to do the same or worse ,as in lunching our missiles? or even worse. This is going to be a forever threat to us and yes we all need to be concerned, The good part is that we have people and computers that are able to find these insecurities and and identify the treat and takes care of it. So it is good to know and thank you for advising.
Have an undecipherable statement in the software that would freeze or self-destruct the program if it was used to hack into where it is not supposed to hack. Did I say this right?
As long as there are devices connected to the internet, there will be hackers trying to break into them, if not using Shodan, then by some other means. The Shodan search engine is not the problem. It is merely a tool used to expose security vulnerabilities that are already out there asking to be exploited. If you leave the door to your house unlocked and your valuables in plain sight, and a thief comes in to steal them, who is to blame? Granted, the thief is breaking the law, but you would be considered a fool for thinking he wouldn’t, when you made it so easy for him.
What is really frightening are not only the various home electronics, but the apparently large number of control systems for industry and infrastructure, that are connected to the internet without being properly secured. At the very least, any connected device should be protected by a strong password, yet many people never even bother to change the default user name and password set by the manufacturer. There are plenty of instructions online explaining how a home user can connect securely. Unfortunately, when the big guys responsible for nuclear plants and government infrastructure are lax with security, we are at their mercy. THAT is what is scary—not the search engine.
Thank you! That so needed to be said, and I didn’t want to have to type it out. *laugh* Seriously, it’s the truth, and it our government can’t seem to get off it’s ass and do it, (and let’s face it, they’d exploit it anyway) then I’m glad it’s the good guys that have it (for now).
I want to know what idiot connected the controls for a nuclear power plant to the internet. How about they restrict things such as nuke plants, weapons, etc. to only local (on-site) control? That’s a no-brainer in my book.
I worked at a nuclear power plant for over 30 years and I can tell you that our control computer was never connected to the internet. We had a computer system that was connected to the internet but that computer was not connected to the control computer. I rather doubt that any American nuclear plants are connected to the internet.
All of them. How do you think they get their computer updates now? ALL of their systems are operated by computer. And it doesn’t necessarily have to be “on” the internet. It could be RF, or any number of Frequencies that transmit. Once they go to a computer that does go to the internet… gotcha.
Usually those internet updates are pushed by one server that is connected at one point out to all of the machines in that intranet section. You are talking about penetration of an intranet wireless system. Of those that are high security, many have rotating authentication so that if you were to somehow get in, your credentials would be revoked after 60 seconds. There are many types of security schemes out there, Many are quite good, that’s not the problem – the problem is that companies don’t use good practices when authorizing access to there networks – either in the rotating password area, or the employee change area. In addition, they use what is called proxy authentication, which essentially means if you are accessing a point into a network from another network – that it accepts the authentication from the source network – a security risk I would say . There are some that have physical cards that you carry that have a constantly changing seed number that needs to be entered within 60 seconds in order to get in, miss that and you are locked out and need to call for them to unlock your account. And these are just the lightweight ones.
The wrong people have their fingers on that button, but God has his finger on his people and we win it’s in the book, they lose. But this nation will be destroyed and brought down to it’s knees, never to be heard from in the end time again! We are not in end time prophecy. Repent while you still can and turn your hearts over to God, accept the free gift of eternal salvation Today!
Pastor Richard C Wilmot
AMEN Brother! The hour is drawing nigh though….
Geeze religious freaks are the reason we are here now and the book has not been written yet with this story so get off your apocolyptic horse and come back down to earth
Shame on “me” for such a comment “religious freaks”
are the reason?? Well wha can we expect from a blind
and deaf person that can’t hear or see what’s going on in the world, God, has hidden the truth from them.
Bring It On. We are watching Big Brother & Big Sister…
everywhere eyes have We.
WE are living in the End Days. ALL Bible Prophecies have been fulfilled but 1 that lead us into the Great Tribulation. Read The Harbingers by anointed Levite Rabbi
Jonathan Cahn. The same Harbingers that ancient Israel faced are on American soil.
Harvard,Yale were Christian Seminary’s, Schools were set up to teach KIDS THE
BIBLE. Now we are a nation that’s killed over 55 million babies, #1 porn producer,
avarice, superficial. You actually think GOD can Bless America? According to
Rev 18, we are wiped out in 1 hour. We need to 2nd Chronicles 7:14 to save
ourselves and wake up. READ Daniel 7 25-27. When antichrist comes he speaks
pompous words, he speaks of CHANGE, he changes many laws. WHO THE
HELL IS THAT? I THINK I KNOW.
Keep on this, as If it is relevant, WE should get up-graded to stay at least in the curve if not ahead of it.
I’m going on 81 and I didn’t think I’d really ever see the beginning of “Big Brother”!
Oh sweetie, you saw the beginning of Big Brother a LONG time ago. You are seeing the connection go in, and THAT is the scary part. 1984 was just a few decades off my friend. We will all be chipped. It’s not fear-mongering, it’s going to happen. If you saw the new Total Recall with Colin Farrell you saw something like what our new telephones will look like. I’m excited for us in wheelchairs, because we won’t need hand controls anymore! They will be in our hands! All of that will be things we can use with our chips.
It sounds scary, but the technological side of it is actually VERY cool. HOWEVER… there will be a LOT of fear-mongering about it. Now, Fr. Col… this is not aimed at you my dear. This is aimed at the very young idiots of the world:
Here’s some of the fear-mongering we will see: “They’ll be able to control your brain.” No, they won’t.
“They will always know where you are!” Why do you care? They aren’t watching you! And if they are, you aren’t they type that would get one anyway! You aren’t a spy! And if you become one, then wow, you’ll instantly become a badass and cut it out, won’t you? NO! Because you won’t become a spy! This isn’t a movie and you aren’t pick-your-favorite-actor-here!
“They will be able to cut off all your money, and phones, and … ” Yeah, they can do that anyway. If you’ve done something wrong. Have you?
In general Fr. Col., the chips will be very cool, and lead to some great advances in technology, eventually. I’m sorry to say, you probably won’t see it in your lifetime, and neither will I, darnit. My husband might, and my children likely will. At first, it will be slow to catch on, like a fad, like LED lighting, expensive and only rich kids will have them… but like the iPAD, very soon EVERY KID ON THE BLOCK will have one, and everyone else as well, Before long, babies will be born with them. *laugh* I’m kidding… mostly. C~
My dear Caitlyn, I am amazed at your flippant remarks. I WILL LOSE MY HEAD, as the Bible says before they chip me and if Im forced, Ill rip it out.
Not everyone believes in the Word of God or Christ and His being the only Redeemer. I pray for you.
I hope that if they can make a search engine such as Shodan, then I really hope they know of a way to thwart it’s being used the wrong way. I think it would be really dumb to make something so powerful and not know of a way to stop it before it is being used, but with out government, that might not be the case.