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QuakeNet permanently GLines T-dialin

Friday, April 1st, 2005

“Due to continued abuse, t-dialin will be permanently glined at 22:00 GMT today” we can read today on the QuakeNet website.

We asked Magpie, admin on QuakeNet, what type of abuse forced QuakeNet to Gline this large German ISP. “The majority of the abuse tends to be impersonating services in an attempt to steal users’ Q account passwords, and thus take over their channels. The abuse is not limited to this, however, and also includes mass spamming, spreading of Trojans and so on.”

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Tags: IRC, Quakenet
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IRCSpy Releases AutoXDCC

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2005

IRCSpy, a website build around a searchengine that indexes downloads being offered on IRC, released AutoXDCC today.

“This new program has been in the works for the last few months by the staff here at IRCSpy. AutoXDCC makes downloading via XDCC using IRCSpy as easy as one click. There is no need to copy and paste troublesome commands into your IRC Client”, author Xanthus announced on the IRCSpy website.

Once you have completed a search on the website, and want to download one of the results, clicking a special icon will add the download in the AutoXDCC program.

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Tags: IRC, Piracy, Software
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Honeynet Project Releases Paper on Botnets

Tuesday, March 15th, 2005

As you can see in the sidebar for IRC news I collect for you, big news today. Lately there is a lot of coverage in the general media about identity theft, DDoS nets, etc. But the paper on botnets released by the Honeynet Project gave quite a boost in the number of articles today on this subject.

The paper explains in great detail a reserach the project did on botnets, and specifically those who use IRC to receive their commands from the drone-runner.

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Tags: Botnets, DDoS, Hack, IRC, Scum
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DALnet AKILL’s FDCservers Colocation Center

Saturday, March 12th, 2005

Recently, DALnet decided to AKILL all customers from FDCservers, a co-location company quite a few shell providers have their server located at.

Ahnberg, admin at DALnet, explained to IRC-Junkie in a reaction; “I’ve heard that the abuse from them over the years has been extremely large, and that the staff working with this and the chaos their users and subcompanies (shellproviders renting rackspace, I guess) cause to our network. It is a very bothersome and time-straining thing to have to handle for our colleagues.”

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Tags: DalNET, IRC
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Freenode Policy Changes Forces Channels to Move/Rename

Thursday, March 10th, 2005

New policies concerning channel ownership is causing some stir amongst channel managers on this network which is primary in use as a base of realtime communication for open source projects. In short, the name in use of the channel must be “contingent on your group’s ownership of that name, legally or informally” as the policy explains. If you have no rights over the channel name, you must begin the channel name with an extra #, for example ##foo instead of #foo.

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Tags: freenode, IRC, Network Addons
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