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mIRC charity appeal

Sunday, November 7th, 2004

Time for a new charity appeal. “Nearly forty million people worldwide are infected with HIV/AIDS, 95% of whom live in the developing world”, the mIRC website states.

All money coming in from registrations now or the coming month will go to Medecins Sans Frontieres, an organization known for their work in developing nations where they received a nobel prize for. The money will be used for ARV’s (Antiretroviral Therapies) which will enable infected people to still have normal lives.

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A real story of a DDoS/Warez group

Saturday, November 6th, 2004

The Real THR34T KR3W: The Story of Hacker Connor Hansen is an article that shows the way this particular group of crackers worked.

Rather then summarizing the article here I recommend to read the article for anyone who likes to have an idea of the working of such a group.

And someone (again) wake those *.edu and *.mil people up!

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Jay R. Echouafni on the run

Friday, November 5th, 2004

In August this year we posted about the DDoS arranged by the owner of FooNet on request by  Jay R. Echouafni.

CIT/FooNet was a well known web and IRC hosting company based in Powell, Ohio. Echouafni allegedly paid the owner of FooNet Paul Ashley $1000,- USD for staging a DDoS attack against two competitors of him. The FBI took custody of the servers of FooNet in February this year in an investigation of the events.

Jay R. Echouafni was released on bail and it is believed he has fled to Morocco. As a reaction the FBI put Echouafni on the most wanted list.

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Eu-irc.net’s French admins say au revoir

Saturday, October 30th, 2004

The new Eu-irc.net has already came to a split. The network existed for about 1,5 year and consisted of an average of 1500 users. After a disagreement the French admins decided to split off from the network, and form Eu-irc.org.

“The domain holder (Solaris) was insisting since months on installing UnrealIRCD’s module m_spy to log private dialogs. All French staff (representing 90% of users) were totally opposed to using this module because they are deeply attached to respect of users privacy”, said Elephantman, one of the French splitting admins, in a reaction to IRC-Junkie.

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Rizon DNS outtage was due to DDoS

Thursday, October 28th, 2004

A few days ago we reported about a DNS outage at Rizon.net. We got in contact with Ksd, a service operator at Rizon, who gave us as explanation; “The error it appears was caused because the owner of the domain filled in random letters and numbers for the contact information address which was flagged.”

After the article was posted we got a number of logs and emails showing a completely different story.

[23:07:13] someone reported our dns and dos’d the shit outta NS and client servers

[23:07:31] gay registar just froze it without emailing or anyth

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