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VoIP Becomes the New Hideout for Drones

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

The Communications Research Network (CRN) issued a statement where they warn that VoIP will become the next generation technology to command bot nets.

The technology of VoIP allows the botnet masters to hide their identity completely making it nearly impossible to trace the origin of DDoS attacks, unlike the current way most botnets are commanded such as over IM networks or IRC.

The CRN recommends the use of open protocols to prevent this abuse.

VoIP networks are often encrypted as well, to maximize the privacy of the users on the network, as well as to prevent ISP’s filtering the traffic in favor of their own VoIP services.

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Tags: Botnets, Software
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DDoS’er Pleaded Guilty

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

Jeanson James Ancheta, 20, of Downey, California, who was arrested in November of last year (we reported on his arrest here) has pleaded guilty to the charges of assembling a botnet, spamming, spreading of malicious software and profiting from these activities by selling services related to the botnet such as performing DDoS attacks.

Among the machines he infected and included in his botnet where computers at the Weapons Division of the United States Naval Air Warfare Center and machines operated by the U.S. Department of Defense.

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Tags: Botnets, DDoS, Hack, IRC, Scum
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Major Piracy Bust in Europe (updated 27 Jan 2006)

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

Tuesday morning at around 10 AM police entered the homes of about 300 individuals in Germany, Austria, Holland, Poland and the Czech Republic. Thirty individuals have been arrested in this action and 20 servers have been confiscated.

According to the German anti-piracy organization GVU the goal of this action was the top-level warez organizations, the so-called ‘top servers’. It are these servers where pirated movies, software and music are first available to a selected few after which they spread down the line and become available to the general public on p2p networks, news groups and IRC.

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Tags: IRC, Piracy, Scum, Software
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mIRC Local DCC Issue: Exploit, Vulnerability or Neither?

Friday, January 13th, 2006

mIRC has seen issues with DCC exploits in the past. In December of last year another possible exploit/vulnerability has been announced on SecurityFocus IRC-Junkie initially decided not to post about since its significance was so minor. However, this issue seems to ruffle up feathers across several forums now.

The issue is described as a local mIRC buffer overflow initiated over DCC. “The code executed are with current user privileges,anyway this bug could be dangerous in universities, cyber coffees, schools and any location with restrictions. Adding/editing filters to locate the specified folder for the files”, the announcement on SecurityFocus reads.

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Tags: Hack, IRC, mIRC, Software
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Politician uses IRC in Political Campaign

Thursday, January 5th, 2006

Peter Ashdown, Senatorial Candidate for the US state of Utah is using IRC in his campaign.  Ashdown is opposing Senator Orrin Hatch.

Ashdown is not unknown in the Internet territory, as he is the founder of Xmission, Utah’s largest ISP, founded in 1993.

In the campaign regular chat sessions will be held which are being announced over a mailinglist and can be followed over a webchat or over an IRC server.

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