Interview: John Matherly on Check Point Blacklisting Shodan
Found on Softpedia on Sunday, 24 January 2016
Check Point has completely ignored the fact that Shodan is also used by the good guys, and that tools similar to Shodan have existed long before the service, most of which were developed by cybercrime groups.
Instead of focusing on the real threat, Check Point has decided to throw an umbrella ban on Shodan, with no guarantee that threat actors won't stop scanning the Web with other similar search engines or their own scanners.
"If you stick your head into the sand, the problem has gone away". Such a simple solution does not exist, and a security company should know that. It says a lot about Check Point, which should probably rename itself to Checkmate because with that press release it managed to move itself into a position where everybody points at them and laughs.