Tim's Computer Science Blog

Recently learned about this interesting search engine. It's not your normal search engine instead it surfs the net looking for computer vulnerabilities. http://www.shodanhq.com/ Works very similarly to other search engines you can use quotes and operation characters (+,-) Looks like the results are curated based largely on meta-data, user-agent, and banner results. Moral of the story, don't use default passwords, there is a search for that. http://www.shodanhq.com/search?q=%22admin%22

Lets take a look at some tracking tools with the advent of CISPA! RIOT = It essentially scrolls through social media sites and curates information. There is a neat video in the link below showing it's use. The most interesting function is that it will do analysis on when you do things during the day, such as going to the gym. Maltego- Pretty similar to RIOT. It is open source. This is what Wikipedia has to say about it. “Maltego focuses on providing a library of transforms for discovery of data from open sources, and visualizing that information in a graph format, suitable for  link analysis  and  data mining .” Jigsaw- It's good for looking up employees of a company. Doesn't really have anything to do with the post! http://darkernet.in/cispa-about-to-become-law-we-list-the-companies-that-back-it-and-introduce-its-new-friend-riot/