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Fyle/Anatoly Admits Guilt

Friday, February 16th, 2007

Bringing criminals to justice takes time, a lot of time. Back in October 2004 we reported about the arrest of Fyle/Anatoly, who was causing havoc on the Darkmyst network, as well as many others.

Fyle/Anatoly, named Richard C. Honour of Kenmore, Washington and 30-years-old, was arrested in suspicion of writing viruses which were being spread by trying to trick IRC users in using malicious links. A total of 21 networks had to deal with it and prevent innocent users from being infected.

The goal of the virus was to collect personal information in order to abuse for financial gain.

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Tags: Botnets, Hack, IRC, Scum
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GameSurge Wants You!

Wednesday, February 7th, 2007

Over the past month GameSurge (ranked #9 by SearchIRC.com) have started to actively recruit new support staff. IRC-Junkie finds out what it takes to become an active member on this network.

The end of January the network posted an article on their website requesting people from European timezones to apply for support staff member. Last week a second request went out for all timezones.

“We originally requested only European applicants because were having problems supporting our userbase from those time zones”, Human Resources Manager Michael Rossi explained to IRC-Junkie. ” We received a decent response from the Europeans. We hired 10 European staff members.  After we hired them, however, we realized at that point that we could also use some more help in our American time zones.”

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Tags: GameSurge, IRC
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GameSurge/Panda Software Giveaway

Saturday, January 6th, 2007

“To further the goal of encouraging good security habits, GameSurge has teamed up with Panda Software to host the GameSurge/Panda Software Security Giveaway”, the GameSurge website announced.

Alacard2k (IRC Operator and Support Operator) explained to IRC-Junkie that originally it was Panda Software that contacted the network for advertising possibilities on their website. “As a general rule we don’t place advertisements on our website, so I spoke to them about some alternatives. Eventually we settled on an idea that would be beneficial to everyone, a giveaway.”

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Tags: GameSurge, IRC, Software
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Mac’s are Controlling Windows Systems

Tuesday, December 19th, 2006

“What huh? Another platform evangelist?”, I can hear you ask. No, don’t worry, although, with the lack of realism some computers owners you might have to worry.

Mac OSX users long thought they were immune to attacks targeting their systems. This year however has seen quiet a few attacks towards OSX systems that opened the eyes of many ‘into’ OSX. In November Apple patched 31 vulnerabilities including a 0-day exploit.

Since then, more vulnerabilities have been found, including malware trying to exploit these.

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Tags: Botnets, IRC, MacOSX
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SorceryNet Celebrates its 10th Year Anniversary

Friday, December 8th, 2006

“I am contacting you to make you aware that the 28th of December will be SorceryNet’s 10th year anniversary” network director Daniel Smith said to IRCJunkie. “To mark the special occasion we have decided to hold a logo contest.”

Sorcery is currently ranked as the 37th network on SearchIRC.

More details about the contest can be found here. Participants can sent in their artwork up until the 9th of January, so no hurries!

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Tags: IRC, SorceryNet
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