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Defcon 20 - Dan Tentler - Drinking from the caffeine firehose we know as shodan

Dan Tentler's DEF CON 20 talk on odd things he found on the internet through Shodan, such as stoplights, power systems and other non-computer devices exposed online. It highlights how many devices need no credentials.

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Why HN readers recommended it

HN points to it when discussing exposed IoT and industrial devices, as an eye-opening look at how much is reachable online.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
vissago
Topic
exposed internet devices
Format
talk
Level
intermediate
HN recommenders in dataset
3
HN mentions in dataset
5
Recommendation years in dataset
2014–2019

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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  • It's both amazing and scary that this kind of vulnerability is fairly common. Check out this great talk given at Defcon ( [VIDEO] ) to get an idea of the magnitude. These are systems that do not require any kind of tampering or credentials. Most …

    jrvarela56 on Hacker News · 2014-04
    In Hacker taps into baby monitor, shouts at sleeping infant

  • Defcon 20 - Dan Tentler - "Drinking from the caffeine firehose we know as shodan" [VIDEO] Warning - watching this may readjust your faith in humanity. Telnet is just the tip of the iceberg. edit: (15:42) "Econolite [stoplights] listening on telnet. There are intersections [with] …

    pdkl95 on Hacker News · 2017-05
    In Vigilantes are working hard to infect IoT devices with the Hajime botnet

  • The answer is: quite probably. A lot of old systems get retrofitted with additional features/terminals/addons on top to make them "more modern" and as a result end up being connected to the internet. A great presentation on this (and many other things) here: [VIDEO]

    dmitriid on Hacker News · 2019-06
    In The NYC subway system runs on OS/2

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