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Figure 5. The remote options of an Advanced IP Scanner

As it’s illustrated in Figure 5, the Radmin alternative would offer us many possibilities such as full control,
view only, shutdown, chat and so on. Choosing one of these options – you would get an opportunity to
login to someone’s computer. In this case, such a device would be an IoT asset being found through the
Shodan’s crawler. Finally, all you need is to connect to such a device and apply some of the command
being given above. The rest of a job is just a piece of cake!

The ways of cyber prevention

Through this learning material, we would talk a bit more about how these sorts of scenarios could get
prevented in a practice. As we would suggest many times – it’s so useful to follow the best practice. In
case of preventing the device to get accessible through some of the scariest searching tools – it’s so
helpful to try to block your inbound ports as well as use the strong authentication which would offer you
much better protection. Also, it could get convenient if you would change the passwords to your system
periodically as well as apply more firewall’s options and regularly update your network’s devices such as
modems and routers. Finally, this chapter would illustrate us how it’s possible and we must say – easy –
to hack someone’s computer, so that’s a reason more to invest into your cyber defense either in private
life or at the work.

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