30 Search Engines for Cybersecurity Researchers (Part 2 of 3)
written by anshul vyas
This is the second of the three parts of the search engines which are used by the Security Researchers.
Link to the first part: https://secpy.medium.com/30-search-engines-for-cybersecurity-researchers-part-1-of-3-faf68bfc6be8
11. DNSDumpster: Search for DNS records quickly
An application for performing DNS reconnaissance on target networks. It provides users with information such as geographical data, host details, email addresses, and formats that can be used to learn more about the targets’ networks.
12. FullHunt: Search and discovery attack surfaces
It is a database that contains all attack surfaces on the Internet, meaning it is capable of identifying all the attack surfaces on the network, monitoring them for infection, and continuously scanning them for vulnerabilities.
13. AlienVault: Extensive threat intelligence feed
You can get a feature-rich open source SIEM with AlienVault OSSIM, Open Source Security Information and Event Management (SIEM). In response to the lack of open source security solutions, AlienVault OSSIM was developed by security engineers to address the issue many security professionals face: Without basic security controls, a SIEM is virtually useless for security visibility, regardless of whether it is open source or commercial.
14. ONYPHE: Collects cyber-threat intelligence data
By crawling various Internet sources or listening to background noise, Onyphe collects open-source and cyber threat intelligence data for their Cyber Defense Search Engine.
15. Grep App: Search across a half million git repos
The Grep.app will display a list of repositories that correspond to the search. Now you can find those elusive coders on GitHub quite effectively.
16. URL Scan: Free service to scan and analyse websites
URL Scan is a free tool to detect malicious URLs by scanning and analyzing websites including malware, scam and phishing links.
17. Vulners: Search vulnerabilities in a large database
You can find extremely large continuous updatable security content database. Vulnerabilities, exploits, patches, bugbounty are available with Google-style search.
18. WayBackMachine: View content from deleted websites
Internet Archive, a nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, California, founded the Wayback Machine, a digital archive of the World Wide Web. With the help of this service, users can go “back in time” and see how websites looked in the past. It was created in 1996 and launched to the public in 2001.
19. Shodan: Search for devices connected to the internet
Some have described Shodan as a search engine of service banners, which are meta data that servers transmit back to clients. Shodan lets users find servers connected to the internet using a variety of filters.
20. Netlas: Search and monitor internet connected assets
A scanner and search engine for the internet, Netlas.io scans IPv4 addresses and domain names using protocols such as HTTP, FTP, SMTP, POP3, IMAP, SMB/CIFS, SSH, Telnet, SQL, among others. Several parts of Netlas.io database are available for download. The collected data is enriched with additional information and available in Netlas.io Search Engine.
