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“During the day today, several wiki pages were defaced, We found a lot of ‘Increase your testosterone’ links, and someone spamming ShadowIRCd” the InspireIRCd Wiki section announced.

Rather than an exploit which have been abused, the defacement was able to take place to the way the Wiki was configured. Brain, of the InspireIRCd project, explains; “we would edit pages (as sysops) then lock the pages when we were done. This meant that any pages which were currently blank and not in use were writeable by anyone, as ’scratchpad’ space. The idea of this was to let third party module developers write help pages for their modules, then once they were happy with their pages, we would lock them and link them into the docs.”

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.

Tom Bral, 20 year-old from Oudenaarde in Belgium has been arrested in suspicion of DDoS’ing the Kreynet IRC network.

Kreynet is the base some commercial TV stations use in Belgium to host their chats. Bral, who is using the nick Inco on IRC, had an application going for a server link on Kreynet.

Bral used to have a server linked to the AfterNet network as well.

“If some of you thought mIRC Resources had a somewhat peculiar decoration earlier today, you were right” the webmaster of  mIRC-Egg.net reports on his site.

The website was defaced and showed a nazi symbol. We asked webmaster Bop how the defacement took place. “The actual defacement utilized a lacking input checking in the backend application for the site, PostNuke. This weakness has been exploited in the popular forum application phpBB previously (as a side note, we do not use for any part of the site).”

In April of this year we reported about the worldwide anti-piracy sweep in which raids took place worldwide including countries such as Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, the Netherlands, Singapore, Sweden, Spain, Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

The first defendant who got arrested in this operation is Jathan Desir, a 26-year-old from Iowa, USA. He pleaded guilty to felony information charging copyright infringement and conspiracy to commit copyright infringement.

Desir was running or helping to run two seperate sites which were used to distribute the pirated software and music and movies. If convicted he can face a maximum jail sentence of 15 years. He will be sentenced on March 18, 2005.