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After being 5 years and 11 days in the making, there was the first production release of the ircII fork EPIC5, now being at version 1.0, in the end of December.

For readers that don’t know the project yet, the website explains a little of EPIC’s history:

EPIC is an irc client project. The EPIC software was forked from ircII-2.8.2 in fall 1994. There have been 5 generations of EPIC, of which the newest two (EPIC4 and EPIC5) are still supported and in development.

5 years and 11 days – What caused that kind of delay?

Hack a Day has an interesting article on how to write Tweets from within your IRC client.

Sounds good? But how?

The article (and one comment) mention 2 methods on how to achieve this – one would be by using a local IRCd written in PERL and another one by using a bot in a channel.

The bot seems to be a bit more of a “bare bone” approach since all of the features it currently supports is is posting Tweets by issueing commands like “!t your message goes here” after you make it connect to the server of your choice and joining a channel you told it to.

Not even a month ago, it was KVIrc 3.4.0 in it’s Windows release which has been vulnerable to what has been at least a DoS/crash.

As of yesterday, there have been new exploits posted on the usual sites around the internet – but this time it is not the fault of KVIrc’s URI handler, because the bug is only exploitable if the malicious link is opened with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and is possible because of its unique way to handle double quotes (“) in links.

When the iPhone first hit the stores, it was a long time where there was no native IRC client available for it and there was no other option than jailbreaking the phone to get one.

Luckily for all IRC users among the iPhone owners, Björn Teichmann created Rooms to fill that gap.

Now being available in version 0.6.8 (and 0.7.0 in a few days) from the AppStore, it already has matured quite a bit, is pretty usable and incorporates most features one could think of to make it a full-blown client that caters to almost everyones needs.

Another day, another IRC client vulnerability…

Researchers have found a remotely exploitable vulnerability in the Quassel IRC client.

Quoted from the projects homepage:

Well, looks like 0.3.0.2 was not the last 0.3.0 release after all. coekie found an issue with CTCP handling in Quassel Core that allows attackers to send arbitrary IRC messages on your behalf. This issue is present in all versions prior to 0.3.0.3 and Git older than October 26th (rev. d7a0381).

Details on the vulnerability are provided on the webpage of the exploits author: