Shodan provides a free Membership upgrade for users that sign up with an academic email address (ex. ending in .edu, .ac.uk etc.). The academic membership includes the following:
Ability to monitor up to 16 IPs
100 query credits per month
100 scan credits per month
Access to Shodan Maps and Shodan Images
vuln filter can be used on the website
For anyone else like me who doesn't know wtf shodan is - from wikipedia:
Shodan is a search engine that lets users search for various types of servers (webcams, routers, servers, etc.) connected to the internet using a variety of filters. Some have also described it as a search engine of service banners, which are metadata that the server sends back to the client.[1] This can be information about the server software, what options the service supports, a welcome message or anything else that the client can find out before interacting with the server.
Shodan collects data mostly on web servers (HTTP/HTTPS – ports 80, 8080, 443, 8443), as well as FTP (port 21), SSH (port 22), Telnet (port 23), SNMP (port 161), IMAP (ports 143, or (encrypted) 993), SMTP (port 25), SIP (port 5060),[2] and Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP, port 554). The latter can be used to access webcams and their video streams.[3]
It seems this has a very specific purpose and not useful for most people. Now that I know, I can get back to something more useful - collecting games that I will never play.
Or collecting Udemy courses that I never play…
based on my 5 minute reading, can i use this to see how my google nest cam is exposed to the internet?
You're better off nmapping yourself (from another network), more accurate and thorough.
Shodan is more for zero exposure scanning and bulk search/analysis. I haven't been impressed with it lately, lot of false negatives and no results.
Am I the only one who read that as free EDU email.
Yes
Look at you hacker, a pathetic creature of meat and bone.
Username checks out