With the recent demise of several popular “proxy” services that let cybercriminals route their malicious traffic through hacked PCs, there is now something of a supply chain crisis gripping the ...

In the past I have helped people set up SSH SOCKS tunnels to help secure their connection to a trusted linux box, but recently I have discovered that I haven't been able to use an ssh tunnel to my own ...

After infecting Fiberhome routers, its sole purpose seems to be setting up SOCKS5 proxies. An odd botnet has been spotted targeting Fiberhome routers, in a quest to add 200 of them per day to its ...

I'm have a linux server sitting in a closet, whose sole purpose is to let me secure my laptop's traffic from hackers and code crackers. For many years, I've run a Squid and SSH to manage the traffic, ...

Once upon a time the thought of a firewalled, cordoned, and censored web was enough to send chills up the spine of any internet user. As the years have passed, however, our sentiment has softened. A ...

SOCKS is built in to OpenSSH, so it's a trivial matter to set up a local SOCKS proxy with the -D flag. For example: $ ssh -D 12345 myuser@remote_ssh_server will open up the port 12345 on your local ...

A proxy server acts as a gateway between the local network and the Internet by accepting all Web page and other Internet service requests from computers connected to the local network and then passing ...