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Halethorpe Man Spills Secrets of International Cybercrime Takedown

He is slender, with steel-gray eyes and close-cropped light brown hair. He looks even younger than his 22 years, belying his experience in the world of high-stakes cybercrime

Mike Major, Jr., of Halethorpe calls himself a “gray hat” hacker–neither clearly a good guy nor a bad guy, but one who navigates the virtual realm of cybercrime guided by his own internal sense of justice.

“I do whatever I feel is right at the time,” he said.

Major said he has no regrets–or fear of reprisals–for his role in disrupting the international hacking group Lulz Security , or LulzSec , which claims responsiblity for attacks on several high-profile government and corporate web sites.

Known online as “Hann,” Major said he and a friend known as “m_nerva” leaked chat room transcripts of cybercrime discussions that led to the June 20 arrest of 19-year-old Ryan Cleary of Essex, U.K., and the seizure of web servers in a Federal Bureau of Investigation raid on a Virginia Internet provider.

Hann and m_nerva, members of a hacking group called Team Poison, released personal identifying information on the half-dozen core members of LulzSec, including real names and addresses, phone numbers and IP addresses that allowed law enforcement agencies to trace their activities over the internet, Major said.

“We have their family relationships, workplace information, everything,” said Major, who spoke publicly of his role for the first time, with the condition that his face not be shown.

He said most of the half-dozen core LulzSec members are in custody or on the run. One raid was made Thursday by the FBI on the home of an Ohio man, according to the Wall Street Journal . 

Declaring War on Governments, Corporations Major explained that hackers congregate in online chat rooms known as internet relay chat (IRC). Typically, a hacker will use a "proxy" or a virtual connection established on a vulnerable computer found over the internet. The computer owner often has no idea that his space and bandwidth is being borrowed for illegal activity.

Using a virtual space on somebody else's computer allows a hacker to disguise his IP address. Even better, Major explains, is borrowing a computer beyond the convenient reach of law enforcement in an eastern European nation or a country like Switzerland, where laws protect private information such as IP addresses.

Using Anonymous Web Proxies to hide your IP address

Welcome to article Using Anonymous Web Proxies to hide your IP address in this article you'll read information guide article about firewalls proxy servers

Welcome to my first installment of a number of articles I will be writing on Internet security and staying safe online.

I won't be covering the very basics, like making sure you have Anti-virus software , but I will talk about special browser plugins, firewalls, proxy servers, sandbox machines, onion routing and plenty of other interesting, helpful and exciting things you can do to stay safe and learn about.

Nowadays there is a lot to worry about on the internet. Devious types can easily intercept your communications and trace your connection back to you for all sorts of things from stealing bank details, to installing malware or finding out what town or even street you live on!

Internet security software has come on in leaps and bounds in recent years but sometimes when you want a little extra anonymity it can pay to use a proxy service.

A proxy is, in it's simplest terms a relay, in 'in between' computer, you make your request for web pages to the proxy, it fetches them and sends the contents back. As far as the other end is concerned they think it is the proxy connecting.

Proxies can be used to hide your tracks but can also be used to filter internet traffic, or even to speed up browsing, these are known as 'transparent proxies' and 'caching proxies' and I will discuss them in another article. for now we are concerned with anonymous proxies.

If you access the Internet at work, or at the library it is likely you have used a proxy without even realizing it.

Every device connected to the internet has an IP address, a unique identifier, it is not normally hidden and is very easy to obtain. You can see you IP address by visiting sites like whatismyip, other information can also be extracted, such as what browser and operating system you are using, for example if you visit hamish.notdot.org you should see not only your IP address, but the refering page (the one you came from) and a string of text that identifies your browser and operating system.

Anonymous proxies can keep you hidden from hackers and logs. There are many available if you search Google, but two of my favourite are the "NotDot Proxifier" and "hide my ass" both of which are free. A proxy isn't necessary, but it is sometimes convenient. If you want to visit a site without giving away your IP, or if you are slightly suspicious of a link you have been given it cold be worth using one.

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