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mIRC.net Experiencing Server Problems

Monday, October 10th, 2005

mIRC.net is a well known mIRC scripting website and IRC community  and is unavailable since last Thursday already.

“I am not 100% sure why  mirc.net is down,” mIRC.net admin magic explained to IRC-Junkie. “It happened when i logged out of the machine through ssh. It went nuts and seems cpu went 100% load. I’ve been unable to login to the server since then.”

Magic has been trying to contact the admin of the hosting location since, unfortunately without success so far.

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Tags: IRC, mIRC, Software
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Zombie Network Rolled Up in Netherlands (upt)

Saturday, October 8th, 2005

The Dutch police have arrested three men, ages 19, 22 and 27 year-old, who were running a network of compromised machines that was counting around 100000 total.

The 19 year-old is considered the prime suspect and the coder of the virus used, W32.Toxbot. The virus was first noticed at the start of this year.

An IRC channel was used to control the bots, and send them commands. They were used in DDoS attacks, and information was collected from online banking services (PayPal) and eBay accounts with the aid of a key-logger.

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Tags: Botnets, DDoS, Hack, IRC, Scum
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XChat Author Warns for Firefox Exploit

Friday, September 23rd, 2005

A second more serious security issue has been discovered which is also being fixed by the recently released Firefox 1.0.7.

The exploit, which is classified as ‘extremely critical’, exploits a security hole in the startup script of Firefox. By passing parameters in URL’s from external applications it is possible to perform commands when Firefox is configured to be the default browser.

The exploit can only be used on certain Linux and *nix systems.

“We have a work-around in xchat 2.4.5, but to really fix it you need to upgrade firefox and mozilla” XChat author Zed said to IRC-Junkie in a  reaction.

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Tags: Hack, IRC, XChat
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DDoS’er Pleaded Guilty

Friday, September 9th, 2005

Richard “Krashed” Roby, 20 years old from Ohio pleaded guilty in federal court in Toledo to DDoS’ing online competitors of Jay Echouafni.

Jay Echouafni, a 38-year-old satellite TV salesman ordered Richard “Krashed” Roby to DDoS his competitors online. One of the other people who has been ordered to attack his competitors is Paul Ashley, who was in those days running the on IRC well known IRC shell company FOOnet. Echouafni offered Ashley 1000$ for the attacks.

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Tags: Botnets, DDoS, Hack, IRC, Scum
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IRC Channel Relays Information From New Orleans

Friday, September 2nd, 2005

Not all of New Orleans is in chaos it seems. Somewhere on the 9th floor of a office building web-hosting company directNIC.com remains operational. With the help of generators on the same floor who kept dry they are able to relay news to the outside world in a blog.

The blog, available here, has been named the “Survival of New Orleans blog”. “In less perilous times it was simply a blog for me to talk smack and chat with friends,” the website starts. “Now this journal exists to share firsthand experience of the disaster and its aftermath with anyone interested.”

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Tags: freenode, IRC
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