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QuakeNet restricts connections

Tuesday, November 9th, 2004

Due to extensive abuse and trojan connections from several ISP’s the connections from those ISP’s have been restricted to a maximum of two connections per host.

“Any users attempting to make more than two connections to the network will receive an error message of “Too many connections from your host”, as well as having their connection refused. We apologise to any legitimate users connecting from these hosts, but the situation has become unavoidable”, magpie announced on the QuakeNet website.

ISP affected include Wannadoo in the Netherlands and France, ono.com, bezeqint.net, proxad.net and the well known Spanish rima-tde.net.

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Tags: IRC, Quakenet
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mIRC charity appeal

Sunday, November 7th, 2004

Time for a new charity appeal. “Nearly forty million people worldwide are infected with HIV/AIDS, 95% of whom live in the developing world”, the mIRC website states.

All money coming in from registrations now or the coming month will go to Medecins Sans Frontieres, an organization known for their work in developing nations where they received a nobel prize for. The money will be used for ARV’s (Antiretroviral Therapies) which will enable infected people to still have normal lives.

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A real story of a DDoS/Warez group

Saturday, November 6th, 2004

The Real THR34T KR3W: The Story of Hacker Connor Hansen is an article that shows the way this particular group of crackers worked.

Rather then summarizing the article here I recommend to read the article for anyone who likes to have an idea of the working of such a group.

And someone (again) wake those *.edu and *.mil people up!

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Tags: Hack, Piracy
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Jay R. Echouafni on the run

Friday, November 5th, 2004

In August this year we posted about the DDoS arranged by the owner of FooNet on request by  Jay R. Echouafni.

CIT/FooNet was a well known web and IRC hosting company based in Powell, Ohio. Echouafni allegedly paid the owner of FooNet Paul Ashley $1000,- USD for staging a DDoS attack against two competitors of him. The FBI took custody of the servers of FooNet in February this year in an investigation of the events.

Jay R. Echouafni was released on bail and it is believed he has fled to Morocco. As a reaction the FBI put Echouafni on the most wanted list.

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Tags: Botnets, DDoS, Hack, IRC, Scum
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