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FreeNode’s Lilo Passed Away After Accident

Sunday, September 17th, 2006

A global notice on the FreeNode network announced the death of FreeNode admin Lilo. “On the 12th September Rob Levin, known to many as Freenode’s lilo, was hit by a car while riding his bike. He suffered head injuries and passed away in hospital on the 16th”

Lilo was being treated at the Neuro Trauma Intensive Care Unit in Houston, where he died the 16th.

Those who would like to pass on their condolences can do so at condolences@freenode.net.

Sirvulcan passed this tragic news to IRC-Junkie.

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Zotob-coders Locked Behind Bars

Thursday, September 14th, 2006

The coders of the Zotob worm have heard their sentence in a Moroccan court. Farid Essebar, a 19-year-old programmer got 2 years of prison, and his accomplish Achraf Bahloul 1 year. A third individual is awaiting sentence in Turkey.

The two got arrested just 2 weeks after the worm started to spread. The worm infected systems from companies like CNN, The Financial Times, ABC and The New York Times. Systems infected were used to collect credit card data and perform DDoS attacks. The systems were being controlled from IRC channels.

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Tags: Botnets, IRC, Scum
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EFnet Round Robin Blues

Tuesday, September 5th, 2006

“Over the past few days, the dude who runs the ‘irc.efnet.net’ round robin decided that he was tired of running it, and removed all the servers from the list”, Doug announced on EFnet.org.  “It now only sends users to his one IRC server. Some admins were clearly upset, and one even called for the delink of the dude’s server.”

EFnet’s loosely structure allows admins to own a broad range of domains such as efnet.net, efnet.org, efnet.info and efnet.us and give them the freedom to do with the domain how they feel like.

Once the roundrobin was changed, Doug setup a new roundrobin on EFnet.org.

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Three Years Jail for DDoSer

Sunday, August 27th, 2006

Christopher Maxwell, 21, of Vacaville, California, has been sentenced to jail for three years. IRC-Junkie reported about him being charged in february of this year.

Aside of the hospital other networks that were affected included the department of defense and a California school district.

He would rent out his network to perform DDoS attacks, and the infected machines earned him money with showing advertisements.

The judge showed little sympathy for Maxwell, calling him “incredible self-centered” with little regard for the impact of his actions on others. She also wanted Maxwell to be set as “deterrence for all those youth out there who are squirreled away in their basements hacking”.

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Tags: Botnets, DDoS, Hack, Scum
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Bali Bomber used IRC to Promote Terrorism

Saturday, August 26th, 2006

Indonesian police arrested two Indonesian men, Agung Setyadi (31) and M. Agung Prabowo (24), after they learned they have been chatting on IRC with Imam Samudra who is awaiting execution for organizing the Bali terrorist attack.

How Imam Samudra has exactly been able to connect to the Internet is not made public, but it in the Indonesian press it is thought that a laptop and GSM phone have been smuggled into the prison. Such items are disallowed possessions for prisoners however, and it is also unclear how the guards have not noticed these items afterwards.

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Tags: IRC, Scum
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