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Operation Fastlink Suspect Pleads Guilty

Wednesday, June 4th, 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.

Mark Shumaker, 21 years-old, was a member of the APC group and also led the Apocalypse Crew’s Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channel. The group specialized in releasing music not yet available to the public.

Shumaker has pleaded guilty and faces up to 5 years in jail and a USD 250,000 fine. Fifteen other members have been convicted already.

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Tags: IRC, Piracy
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IRC-Junkie.xml Newsfeed

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

Apparently I had forgot to include an urlencode somewhere which did not surface until now.

The feed should be OK now. Excuses for the inconvenience.

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Tags: Site News
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EFnet Enables SSL Connections

Monday, May 26th, 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.”

The developers of the Ratbox IRCd added it to the code after continuous requests. “The option to support SSL connections is part of ratbox 3, which is currently in beta stage. Hence only a few servers support it yet, namely irc.efnet.ch, irc.pte.hu & irc.blessed.net. However irc.eversible.com is running a special solution also accepting SSL, using the older ratbox 2. Also irc.efnet.ch and irc.pte.hu are running separate ircds for the SSL clients, to not disrupt regular clients while bugfixing etc.”

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Tags: EFNet, IRC, Network Addons
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New Zealand Botnet Master Arrested

Thursday, May 22nd, 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.

The botnet consists of AKBot worm infected machines. The botnet has been used to attack IRC networks, security companies and the University of Philadelphia.

“He is extremely clever”, said Maarten Kleintjes, head of the computer criminality department.

He is also acused of leading a worldwide network called the A-Team with members from New Zealand, Holland and the USA. New Zealand police worked togheter with the FBI on this arrest, codenamed “AKILL”.

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Tags: Botnets, DDoS, IRC
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mIRC 6.32 Released

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

Version 6.32 of probably the most popular IRC client have been released yesterday.


“This version of mIRC builds on recent releases by focusing on stability and reliability and addressing the various issues that have been reported by users since the last release. It includes cosmetic changes to the interface, fixes, optimizations, and improvements to the scripting language,” the mIRC website reports.

Some of the major changes include longer nicknames, channel names and messages as well as longer variables in scripting. Other changes include:

* Added support for network-specific window position saving.

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Tags: IRC, mIRC, Software
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