Re: SHODAN account - free upgrade for .EDU folks

["Greene, Allen" <Allen.Greene () ROCHESTER EDU>]

Really??  Wow, huge kudos to John!  Thanks for sharing Shawn.

-Allen

-----Original Message-----
From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Shawn 
Merdinger
Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2014 1:59 PM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] SHODAN account - free upgrade for .EDU folks

I've a correction on the value of the upgrade.  Per John:

<snip>

Actually the value is much greater :) The offer also includes the "Small Business" API plan which would otherwise cost 
$99/ month. And it also includes Shodan Maps as well as 100 export credits. If you bought those things individually it 
would easily be more than $200.

</snip>

Cheers,
--scm

On 8/23/14, Lisciotti, Kevin <klisciotti () umassp edu> wrote:
> Awesome, thanks for the FYI! He already upgraded my account 😀
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kevin Lisciotti
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Aug 22, 2014, at 8:56 PM, "Shawn Merdinger" <shawnmer () GMAIL COM>
> > wrote:
> >
> > FYI
> >
> > John Matherly is offering free SHODAN account upgrades if your SHODAN 
> > user registration is based from a .EDU email address.  Applies to 
> > faculty, staff, students, etc.  This is a value of US $20....but 
> > really worth much more from a practical intel standpoint.  A very 
> > generous move by John and kudos to him.
> >
> > See: 
> > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v1/url?u=https://twitter.com/achill
> > ean/status/502561907719819265&k=p4Ly7qpEBiYPBVenR9G2iQ%3D%3D%0A&r=yp8
> > DOOKm43AgGZBoqnsrpjwo3petZZbL%2BMxwZivS2pI%3D%0A&m=7aZKRrsFwmarxLoIME
> > sbpiAlEWgPBl8q0V98QkxkzWA%3D%0A&s=917eb46af8157686bdb37d2dcbd3c15b8b0
> > ff856a53377001fd347a4cd2b675a
> >
> > This is well worth it for the added funtionality.  Find all your 
> > public exposed SCADA/ICS [1] before the bad guys do...and all the 
> > other stuff, like printers, XP boxen, etc. [2]
> >
> > [1]
> > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v1/url?u=http://www.tripwire.com/st
> > ate-of-security/government/locating-scada-and-ics-systems-on-edu-netw
> > orks-with-shodan/&k=p4Ly7qpEBiYPBVenR9G2iQ%3D%3D%0A&r=yp8DOOKm43AgGZB
> > oqnsrpjwo3petZZbL%2BMxwZivS2pI%3D%0A&m=7aZKRrsFwmarxLoIMEsbpiAlEWgPBl
> > 8q0V98QkxkzWA%3D%0A&s=74eed4f5899207ee8db8a51624b26ffc9d9d2ce68d411b6
> > debd904b1e2b32a2c
> > [2]
> > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v1/url?u=http://www.educause.edu/ev
> > ents/security-professionals-conference/2014/using-shodan-edu&k=p4Ly7q
> > pEBiYPBVenR9G2iQ%3D%3D%0A&r=yp8DOOKm43AgGZBoqnsrpjwo3petZZbL%2BMxwZiv
> > S2pI%3D%0A&m=7aZKRrsFwmarxLoIMEsbpiAlEWgPBl8q0V98QkxkzWA%3D%0A&s=f40e
> > ee959448c607731e4fcc87245a1f99821adc1bded75301d6320a520c7287
> >
> > Cheers,
> > --scm
> > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v1/url?u=https://www.linkedin.com/i
> > n/shawnmerdinger&k=p4Ly7qpEBiYPBVenR9G2iQ%3D%3D%0A&r=yp8DOOKm43AgGZBo
> > qnsrpjwo3petZZbL%2BMxwZivS2pI%3D%0A&m=7aZKRrsFwmarxLoIMEsbpiAlEWgPBl8
> > q0V98QkxkzWA%3D%0A&s=c25bf37b9c71e5c24c54e42275be7c5696ab2335d195913e
> > 8075d920fc2ae634