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The Case Study: The Exploitation of Business

Assets

By Milica D. Djekic

The role of this case study is to explain how it’s feasible to exploit some business assets using the IoT
search engines and some hacking tools. As it’s known – the IoT crawlers give us back the IP addresses
and some additional information for a certain criterion being sent as a request. In this chapter, we would
apply the Censys searching tool for crawling the web in a quite wide context, so the users of this book
should simply follow the given instructions. In addition, the provided business asset would get correlated
with the Post, Telecommunication and Internet Company which would be one of the leading domestic
businesses in Republic of Serbia.

How to target a certain business

When we made a decision to deal with this book’s chapter – the first question we got was which business
to choose as a quite convenient case study. As we are from Republic of Serbia, we were thinking about
some domestic business possibly belonging to a public sector. Finally, we made a decision to select the
PTT Net Company being the leading post, telecommunication, cable TV and internet provider. So, it’s
quite clear that such an asset could get included into a critical infrastructure for a reason – in case of its
collapse many people would stay without many things meaning a lot to them. Practically, we would appeal
to all defense and intelligence services in Republic of Serbia or wider to pay a special attention to these

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