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mIRC 6.33 Released
19 July 2008
"This version of mIRC continues to build on recent releases and addresses a number of issues that have been reported by users since the last release. It includes improvements, changes and fixes to a number of features", the mIRC website reports.
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ChatSpike Migrates to Atheme IRC Services
9 June 2008
"ChatSpike is migrating to Atheme IRC Services (from ircservices 5 which we have been using since we started, 6 years ago)" Brain said to IRC-Junkie.
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IRC Defender 1.5 Released
7 June 2008
IRC Defender is a security package written in Perl made for small to medium sized networks. Its written in Perl and fully modular.
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Operation Fastlink Suspect Pleads Guilty
4 June 2008
Back in April 2004 we reported about a worldwide anti-piracy sweep named "Operation Fastlink" where members of the APC group (and other warez groups) were being arrested.
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IRC-Junkie.xml Newsfeed
31 May 2008
Apparently I had forgot to include an urlencode somewhere which did not surface until now.
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EFnet Enables SSL Connections
26 May 2008
"EFnet has recently enabled SSL connections on a select few servers," EFnet admin Taliz wrote to IRC-Junkie. "irc.efnet.ch, irc.pte.hu and irc.blessed.net are allowing SSL clients to connect on ports 9999, 7000, 7001 and 6697."
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mIRC 6.32 Released
22 May 2008
Version 6.32 of probably the most popular IRC client have been released yesterday.
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New Zealand Botnet Master Arrested
22 May 2008
An 18-year-old New Zealand suspect has been arrested in a botnet case. He is suspected of controlling a botnet consisting over 1 million infected computers and having caused nearly 13.5 Euro million in damages.
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Denora 1.4.0 Released
19 May 2008
"Yes. Oh, yes... It's there," the Denora website announced. "Over two years and 9 months after the last stable release, we now finally set the next major version in the wild: Denora 1.4.0! There have been hundreds of changes, improvements and fixes. We believe Denora 1.4 will bring you a more reliable and satisfying experience."
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Eggdrop 1.6.19 Released
8 May 2008
It took almost 2 years for a new release, and even then it consists mostly of bugfixes of which one fixes a serious issue.
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