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Bahamut support website cracked

Tuesday, December 21st, 2004

“This website is temporary down because the idiot admin (i.e. me) didn’t update phpBB to a non exploitable version” webmaster Doc stated on the Bahamut-community.org website.

Bahamut-community.org is a website with got started to help users with this popular IRCd, and to relieve the support channel #bahamut on DALnet from FAQ’s.

The website is based on the popular phpBB forum software, which recently saw an important update due to a serious exploit. Webmaster Doc stated in a  reaction to IRC-Junkie: “I had been warned about it soon after it came out by several people, however I’ve recently just got a job and a new girlfriend, so I’ve had very little time for the internet :. I guess this has taught me a lesson.”

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Tags: Bahamut, Hack, IRC
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DALnet acts upon XXX password sharing

Sunday, December 19th, 2004

Since a few days channel managers of XXX password channels on DALnet have been directed to read this page. “You have been directed to this page because you are listed as founder on a channel which has been reported to us as a location where passwords for adult sites are traded”, the page starts.

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Tags: DalNET, Hack, IRC
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Undernet website hacked

Friday, December 10th, 2004

Users of the Undernet network have noticed the site has been down for a few days. The website had an old calendar PHP script which was unused, but never deleted from the site.

“The calendar had an exploit that allowed users to read local files on the server by issuing local commands thought the php query string”, the admin of the Undernet website magic explained IRC-Junkie in a reaction.

“The website is running in a jail so he was unable to get anything of importance. He was able to read a very old sql dump where all password except two test passwords was encrypted using MD5.”

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Tags: Hack, Undernet
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mIRC charity appeal ends

Wednesday, December 8th, 2004

“Thanks to all of the mIRC users who registered their copies of mIRC between November 6th and December 6th to support our appeal, 100% of your registration has been donated to Medecins Sans Frontieres for use in their HIV/AIDS prevention and ARV treatment programmes around the world”, the mIRC website says.

This time a total of 2301 users registered their mIRC client, which raised a total of $46,020.00.

“Many thanks to everyone who helped out!”

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Tags: mIRC, Software
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AngryWolf quits Unreal Module development

Sunday, November 28th, 2004

On his website AngryWolf announced he will stop development of modules for the popular UnrealIRCD server package. “I’ve been so busy for more than one month that I couldn’t do any updates on the site and on my modules since then”, AngryWolf explains. “I just can’t do these anymore. They mean too much work for me, even because I’m having university.”

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Tags: IRC, Network Addons, Unreal IRCd
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