Halethorpe Man Spills Secrets of International Cybercrime Takedown
"I do whatever I feel is right," says the "gray hat" hacker, of leaks made in LulzSec case.
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 responsibility 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 …
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Sean Tully
9:03 pm on Tuesday, July 5, 2011
I think the only way corporations are ever going to really take the protection of personal information seriously is if they are severely fined when someone hacks into their systems. I have absolutely no sense of security when it comes to my personal information being "out there" in cyberspace. more ›