Researchers say Necurs malware has been updated with a module that adds SOCKS/HTTP proxy and DDOS capabilities to this malware. The Necurs botnet has learned a new trick. Instead of spewing spam ...

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 ...