http://www.IRC-Junkie.org/ IRC News http://www.irc-junkie.org/1219235077/EFNet-IRC-net-and-Website-get-hacked On sunday, one of the servers of the Eris Free Network, efnet.nl and the official webpage became victims of a hacking attack. Also the networks main channel, #efnet, became the playground of spam and other abuse. http://www.irc-junkie.org/1219187284/Denora-IRC-Statistics-version-1.4.1-released On Saturday the Denora project made another release of their IRC statistics package. Among the changes is a security bugfix so this is definitively a recommended upgrade. http://www.irc-junkie.org/1218822551/Another-100.000-Zombies-Botnet-bust Yesterday, the creator of a Botnet consisting of more than 100.000 Zombies has been arrested. The 19-year old Dutch and his 16-year old brother are said to be the botmasters of what once was a botnet peaking 150.000 compromised hosts... http://www.irc-junkie.org/1218563405/mIRC-6.34-has-been-released 4 days ago, Khaled Mardam-Bey released a new version of the popular Windows IRC-client mIRC , 6.34. http://www.irc-junkie.org/1218283068/Hi,-my-name-is... ..phrozen77 and i am the new operator of this fine website. http://www.irc-junkie.org// http://www.irc-junkie.org/1217779689/Domain-and-Site-for-Grabs Lately I hardly found the time to put in this site to keep it a worthwhile read. Hence I'm considering letting it go to new hands. After running the site for more then a decade not a decision I took lightly... http://www.irc-junkie.org/1216475799/mIRC-6.33-Released "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. http://www.irc-junkie.org/1213009758/ChatSpike-Migrates-to-Atheme-IRC-Services " 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. http://www.irc-junkie.org/1212821657/IRC-Defender-1.5-Released IRC Defender is a security package written in Perl made for small to medium sized networks. Its written in Perl and fully modular. http://www.irc-junkie.org/1212605349/Operation-Fastlink-Suspect-Pleads-Guilty 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.