“Up until a few years ago, I maintained the project which you can find on this site: Winbot – A windows IRC bot. In 2005, the Winbot project dropped off the face of the earth due to the fact I no longer had time to maintain it, and was no longer using windows as my operating system. I have promised for quite a while now that I would release Winbot as open source, so here it is” Winbot developer Craig Edwards announced on the Winbot website.
Machines connected to the Internet and not having installed patch MS06-040 released by Microsoft last week are now vulnerable for being hijacked by a new worm, a variant of the Mocbot trojan. This first appeared in August 2005 as the Zotob-worm.
Security firms expect this worm-attack to grow like a big one, despite this worm seemingly only to attack Windows 2000 machines.
Once installed into the system, the bot will connect to an IRC server and wait there for commands from the dronemaster. The hosts in question are bbjj.househot.com:18067 and ypgw.wallloan.com:18067.
Image the ultimate Otaku, geeky looking, the worst glasses you can imagine and hiding in books and behind the screen most of your day.
One day this character find himself in a commuter train together with a pretty girl and the ultimate bad guy that is harassing the girl.
He saves her! And naturally, falls in love with her on the spot …
A few days later he receives a package form the girl, it contains a note and a set of Hermes teacups.
“At approximately 5pm PST today all BellSouth hosts were blocked due to inaction by their abuse department. We are currently working with BellSouth support to resolve this issue. Once BellSouth addresses our abuse complaints with them, we will remove the block on BellSouth hosts”, GameSurge admin Cradly announced on the networks’ website.
Major IRC networks are occasionally forced to GLine an entire ISP due to inactivity after abuse reports. This time however, it was a single user. “… it was an actual user who would persistently evade bans and G-lines” another GameSurge admin, Entrope, explained to IRC-Junkie.
23-year-old Brian Salcedo appealed against his sentence which was 9 years old, which the judge reconfirmed.
A fried of Salcedo detected an insecure wireless network while wardriving. Returning with Salcedo they were able to enter the network and modify software in such way that the two could gain creditcard information of customers of Lowe’s in Southfield, Michigan, USA. Salcedo was at that time in hist last month of probation of a 3 year period which he received for computer-criminality while being underage.
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