Archive for the ‘Clients’ Category

Mibbit has been compromised

Sunday, August 14th, 2011

On August 14 a cracker group claiming to be “hackers” named HTP broke into Mibbit, the popular web chat client for IRC. According to their temporarily “rescue” blog the break-in only affected their IRC network, their primary blog and their Wiki. NickServ passwords in clear text were released later the same day by the HTP, as well as personal information regarding several staff members. Both their IRC O-line passwords as well as their NickServ passwords, home addresses and phone numbers were published to the public via a range of file hosting services, and Pastebin.

ii – A Filesystem-based IRC Client

Monday, September 13th, 2010

There are many different IRC clients out there and no matter what your preferences are, you’re almost guaranteed to find one that will suit your needs.

Most clients today provide some sort of graphical user interface or come with an ASCII-based interface. And while the latter, CLI-based clients, are commonly thought to be the most basic variant of an IRC client, i was surprised to find a client that manages to be even more plain: ii or IRC IT.

ii is a “minimalist FIFO and filesystem-based IRC client”, meaning every channel, private message and other server communication is represented by a directory containing an in and an out file.

KVIrc 3.x and 4.x Remote Command Execution Vulnerability

Sunday, August 1st, 2010

All current versions of the KVIrc IRC client contain a remotely exploitable command execution vulnerability, including builds of KVIrc 4 from subversion up to revision 4692 as well as the older 3.x versions.

The bug, triggered by inserting carriage returns (r) into DCC GET commands, can be used to execute every command the IRCd understands in the context of the user running the vulnerable client instance.

To check if your version is exploitable you can either take a look at the “About KVIrc” tab under “Help” and check the revision or execute the following command on IRC:

Smuxi 0.7.2.1 is out, extends CTCP support & adds ignore filters

Sunday, July 25th, 2010

Smuxi, the “Smart MUltipleXed” IRC client was updated to version 0.7.2.1 on Friday.

The new version contains 13 new features, fixes 29 bugs and is now available in 4 new languages – Portuguese, Danish, Finnish and Catalan, of which the latter two are currently only partially translated. Six already existing translations have been updated and project lead meebey asks interested parties to contribute and further improve them.

Interesting new features include the freshly added linemarker which inserts a red line where you last looked into the channel, a private message window or the Twitter tab – see the below screenshot:

IRC Statistics Software Comparison

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

Today we shall have a look at the various possibilities available for statistics of activity on IRC, should you decide you want to have some pretty graphs detailing the happenings in a channel or on a whole network.

Most programs presented in this article parse logfiles generated by a variety of IRC clients, with the exception of phpDenora/Denora which needs to be run as a network service to gather its stats. However, both solutions can supplement one another as one may gather and display information that the other does or even can not.