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Anope releases RC1 of new 1.8 stable branch

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

On Sunday, 26th October the Anope project announces the release of release candidate 1 of their new stable branch, version 1.8 of their widely used IRC services package.

The announcement on their website also mentions that “Apart from updates to language files there are no changes since the last development release (1.7.24).”

However, all users of the last stable release, 1.6.5, should prepare to test the new version since they plan to stop supporting it when 1.8 becomes final.

A detailed changelog can be found here.

Thanks to Chaz & Viper for the tip!

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Tags: Anope, IRC, Network Addons, Software
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EFNet IRC net and Website get hacked

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

www.irc-junkie.org tried to get in touch with EFNet to comment on the happenings to no avail but got instead contacted by the hackers themselves.

The hackers, identifying themselves as “2l8″, allegedly killed off the IRCd on efnet.nl and relinked with their “ircd with a custom-made patch iHaq wrote just for the occasion. Amongst other nifty features it had kill protection, automatic opering, hardcoded spoof (incase anyone got in and looked at hte config files) for us (root@your.servers) and a more dynamic, yet coded in spoof that gave every connected user a host like OWNED-#.MASSIVE.2l8.OWNAGE”.

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Tags: EFNet, Hack, IRC
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Denora IRC-Statistics version 1.4.1 released

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

Changes in the latest version include improved Charybdis support, Nefarious and other P10 IRCD improvements, compiling on Windows has been fixed, some other minor fixes which are unnamed and an as vaguely described “potential security issue in string handling has been adressed”.

Compiling on Windows with SQL enabled has been a “last minute fix” so the developers consider this a test release for Windows and appreciate any feedback via their bugtracker

The homepage of the project is located here

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Tags: Denora, IRC, Network Addons, Software
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Another 100.000 Zombies Botnet bust

Friday, August 15th, 2008

Yesterday, the creator of a Botnet consisting of more than 100.000 Zombies has been arrested. The 19-year old Dutch and his 16-year old brother are said to be the botmasters of what once was a botnet peaking 150.000 compromised hosts…

Also arrested was a 35-year old Brazilian that wanted to buy the botnet for his malicious activities – at the price of 25.000€ (US$37.290). The bust was a cooperation between the Dutch High Tech Crime unit and other international forces such as the F.B.I.

The botnet spread on Windows Live Messenger without the help of exploits but using a social engineering approach.

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Tags: Botnets, DDoS, IRC
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mIRC 6.34 has been released

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

4 days ago, Khaled Mardam-Bey released a new version of the popular Windows IRC-client mIRC

The website states: This version of mIRC is a small though important update to the previous version and has been released primarily to resolve an important issue with ‘if’ statements being processed incorrectly in the scripting language.

It continues: Although this is a minor update, it includes important changes and is a highly recommended download.

The full list of changes is as follows:

1.Fixed if/while bracket priority bug which affected the parsing of if/while statements.

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Tags: IRC, mIRC, Software
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