Archive for the ‘IRC’ Category
Friday, November 14th, 2008
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.
Tags: iPhone, IRC, Rooms, Software
Posted in Clients, IRC, Software | 4 Comments »
Thursday, November 6th, 2008
Dealing with spam is something every IRC network had to do in the past, present or even maybe in the future.
If it is somebody that is trying to give your network a bad name, a trojan horse that tries to infect your users or just someone that tries to annoy you and your users doesn’t quite matter, spam probably has been an issue as long as IRC has existed.
Luckily, there are quite a few methods and ways to counter-act on it.
Tags: BOPM, DNSBLs, How-To, InspIRCd, IRC, IRC-Defender, NeoStats, Network Addons, Software, Unreal IRCd
Posted in IRC, IRCd, Network Addons, Networks, Tutorials | 6 Comments »
Monday, November 3rd, 2008
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:
Tags: Hack, IRC, Quassel, Software
Posted in Clients, Hack, IRC, Software | No Comments »
Friday, October 31st, 2008
No, not only mIRC has bugs 
For the second time, after a similar vulnerability in 2007, the irc:// URI-handler of KVIrc 3.4.0 is vulnerable to exploitation.
For successful exploitation of the security hole the user needs to be tricked to follow a maliciously crafted irc:// link – “Failed exploit attempts may cause denial-of-service conditions.” at least, or might even enable the attacker “to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the affected application.” - which we all know is Administrator for 95% of all Windows machines.
Tags: Hack, IRC, KVIrc, Software
Posted in Clients, Hack, IRC, Software | 1 Comment »
Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Little over one month after the last release of the popular IRC-client, a new version becomes public.
According to the website the update is due to a security flaw concerning “very long nicknames on non-standard servers” and it is therefore a recommended upgrade for everyone.
Also, it seems the exploit code for the mentioned vulnerability is already in the wild so it’s advised to update in a timely manner or deploy the following workaround if an upgrade is not possible:
on ^*:OPEN:?:*:if ($len($nick) > 298) halt
The above snippet should be added to ones mIRC’s remotes and shall then prevent the hole from being exploited.
Tags: Hack, IRC, mIRC, Software
Posted in IRC, Software, mIRC | No Comments »
