“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.”
It took almost 2 years for a new release, and even then it consists mostly of bugfixes of which one fixes a serious issue.
Version 1.6.19 of the popular IRC bot Eggdrop fixes a buffer overflow issue in the server module. It is exploitable by a malicious server. As long as the bot connects to a reputable server it should be OK.
IRC-Junkie tried to contact Guppy with a few questions but has received no reply so far, partly explaining the delay in reporting this new release.
A list of all updates according to the updates.txt file:
A 40-year-old channel operator of a child pornography IRC channel received 8 years prison.
An investigation led by Interpol resulted in the arrest of 25 channel members worldwide spread over 10 countries. The channel operator, Brian Martin from Oregon USA, has now been sentenced to 8 years in prison. On his computer more then 5,000 images of child pornography have been found.
The channel served as a trading place where members exchanged newly found child pornography files, including video files.
Martin requested to remain free pending an appeal of his conviction, but U.S. District Judge Ancer L. Haggerty denied that request.
Version 2.8.7 released the 20th of last month has been superseded with 2.8.7a Zed announced on the XChat homepage.
This new version is mainly a bugfix release, as the changelog shows.
The XChat Windows release is shareware. Freeware versions are still being released from the otherwise still available opensource code. One such release is from Silverex but is an older release, 2.8.4.
As a recent post also indicated, botnets are considered one of the main Internet security threats. Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have proposed a new piece of software that can detect botnets, named BotSniffer.
It is hard to detect botnets, as they make use of existing protocols such as IRC in ways that it makes it hard to distinguish them from ‘normal’ users.
The researchers explain: “Our approach is based on the observation that, because of the pre-programmed activities related to C&C (command & control, ed.), bots within the same botnet will likely demonstrate spatial-temporal correlation and similarity.”
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