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Introducing Shodan, Maltego, AMass, Recon-NG, and other recon tools

Introducing Shodan, Maltego, AMass, Recon-NG, and other recon tools

From the course: Complete Guide to Cybersecurity: A Practical Approach

Introducing Shodan, Maltego, AMass, Recon-NG, and other recon tools

- [Instructor] Shodan is an amazing platform, an amazing tool to perform reconnaissance of what is actually exposed out on the internet. So basically what this is, it used to be an individual, but now it's an organization that is scanning the internet as we speak. They're scanning the internet 24/7 from many different locations around the world. And then the results of those scans, they actually put them in a database and then that database can be actually queried either through this form or through an API that is available on where, if you're a developer or if you're creating your own tools, of course you can interact with, or if you're using other tools, especially the tools that we're going to explore a little bit later, like Maltego and Recon-NG and many others, you can integrate those also with Shodan and interact with them in an automated fashion. Now, what Shodan allows you to do is things like this, you can actually type here in the search just a protocol like Telnet, right?…

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