John Matherly, founder, Shodan
John Matherly, founder of Shodan, a search engine that can find devices connected to the internet using a variety of filters, explains why some cyber insurers and companies considering mergers and acquisitions are using the search engine to probe for network vulnerabilities.
Some cyber insurers are using Shodan to help them assess whether potential clients have security shortcomings, Matherly says, adding that insurers want to address such questions as Are you doing a good job patching your devices? because that helps them to determine how much the premiums should be.
Companies considering acquiring another firm can use Shodan to help determine whether the acquisition target has adequate security measures, Matherly says.
Tales of unsecure IoT cameras come along with regularity. But it s going to be tough to top the system-wide failure revealed this week at California-based Verkada, the fast-growing cloud surveillance camera company.
Verkada committed a relatively simple security failure, which arguably put many of its customers and members of the public at risk. As first reported by Bloomberg, a group of somewhere in the middle of white and black hat hackers gained access to more than 150,000 cameras deployed by large companies, schools, local government agencies and healthcare institutions (see: We just found it through going through . Shodan results as always.
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