“I am contacting you to make you aware that the 28th of December will be SorceryNet’s 10th year anniversary” network director Daniel Smith said to IRCJunkie. “To mark the special occasion we have decided to hold a logo contest.”
Sorcery is currently ranked as the 37th network on SearchIRC.
More details about the contest can be found here. Participants can sent in their artwork up until the 9th of January, so no hurries!
British ISP British Telecom implemented a new system where they will actively search and clean PCs from customers who have been found sending spam, with extra care to those who are believed to be a part of zombie networks which are also used in DDoS attacks.
Once such a system have been found the ISP either helps the customer to clean their system, or terminates the account, depending on whether the customer knowingly sent spam, or has been infected by malicious software.
A new law has been introduced in the UK which will put you in jail for a maximum of 10 years if you launch a DDoS attack. UK’s Britain’s Computer Misuse Act which was written well before the days of the WWW contained flaws that could possibly let DDoS attackers fall through holes in the law.
The new law includes these specific rules against DDoS:
* to impair the operation of any computer,
* to prevent or hinder access to any program or data held in any computer, or
* to impair the operation of any program or data held in any computer.
More of a blog type post then something you normally find here, but this article is more then worth your attention.
SecurityFocus has a very interesting article that explains how dronerunners are turning their backs on using IRC servers to control their drone-networks. Not really a bad thing, they are supposed to deliver a platform for people to have fun and chat on! But a downside is that people hunting the botnets down have increased difficulty in finding them.
The dronerunners are more and more relying on HTTP botnets.
Thanks to Stefano who passed the URL to me.
Helsinki Police have arrested nine men in and around Helsinki, of which three have been tried and convicted, and the rest remain suspects.
They have been sexually exploiting thirty children in the range six to seventeen years old in hundreds of separate crimes.
One of the suspects is a teacher who abused his position. In other cases the suspects used IRC and message boards to make contact with children.
The nine arrested were not organized, although some of them had contact with each other.
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