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IRC-controlled botnet SDBot is still going strong

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

Despite being already over 5 years old, SDBot and its variants are still going strong and haven’t followed the decline that other similar threats have taken.

Using IRC as a control channel for botnets is one of the older, possibly even the oldest method around – the newer bots most of the time use either P2P or HTTP for their control, allowing them to be stealthier and harder to trace back than their IRC-using counterparts.

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Tags: Botnets, Hack, IRC
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KVIrc Ubuntu Karmic build is broken

Friday, December 11th, 2009

In the most recent newspost on the KVIrc website developer HelLViS69 writes that certain features of the IRC-client are broken on Ubuntu Karmic Koala.

He writes that “all popups are missing, and many actions on IRC return a parser error”. After installing the supposedly broken client we’ve indeed been able to confirm this as right-clicking on nicknames in the nicklist does not produce the expected popup but fails silently.

Doing the same in the channel window results in a more noisy error:

[KVS] Runtime Error: Popup channel is not defined
[KVS]   in script context “OnChannelNickPopupRequest::default”, line 1, near character 14
Event handler OnChannelNickPopupRequest::default is broken: disabling

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Tags: IRC, KVIrc, Software
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Anope support goes international

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

The Anope services project considers “opening up International Support Forums & expanding the use of International Language Specific IRC Channels on irc.anope.org” according to this news-post on their homepage.

Developer chaz writes in the announcement that “if anyone is multilingual including English and wishes to maintain a channel for their language and/or Forum on our web forum” to email him and to elaborate on “why it should be you and not someone else”.

Good luck and happy supporting :)

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Tags: Anope, IRC, Network Addons, Software
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Freenode issues

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

Not only was (and is) Freenode being hit by some bored kiddy – to add insult to the injury they’re currently experiencing major stability issues, resulting in many netsplits throughout the day.

As JonathanD writes in their most-recent blogpost they’ve been “facing some fairly major splits today as there have been issues between some of our major hubs” and that they’ve “rerouted these and are working on tracing down the cause of any other splits” and that their “staff are already hard at work on these issues and will resolve them as quickly as possible”.

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Tags: freenode, IRC, ircd-seven
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Anope network services are updated to 1.9.1-p1

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

The Anope project released a new version of their services package today.

The network services from the development branch are now at version 1.9.1-p1.

Developer Adam notes that “this release includes a number of bug fixes that were found in 1.9.1, so users of the development branch are encouraged to update.”

The changes included in this release are the following:

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Tags: Anope, IRC, Network Addons, Software
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