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One User Causes Networkwide ISP Ban on GameSurge

Monday, July 17th, 2006

“At approximately 5pm PST today all BellSouth hosts were blocked due to inaction by their abuse department. We are currently working with BellSouth support to resolve this issue. Once BellSouth addresses our abuse complaints with them, we will remove the block on BellSouth hosts”, GameSurge admin Cradly announced on the networks’ website.


Major IRC networks are occasionally forced to GLine an entire ISP due to inactivity after abuse reports. This time however, it was a single user. “… it was an actual user who would persistently evade bans and G-lines” another GameSurge admin, Entrope, explained to IRC-Junkie.

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Tags: GameSurge, IRC, Scum
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Hacker 9 Years in Jail

Thursday, July 13th, 2006

23-year-old Brian Salcedo appealed against his sentence which was 9 years old, which the judge reconfirmed.

A fried of Salcedo detected an insecure wireless network while wardriving. Returning with Salcedo they were able to enter the network and modify software in such way that the two could gain creditcard information of customers of Lowe’s in Southfield, Michigan, USA. Salcedo was at that time in hist last month of probation of a 3 year period which he received for computer-criminality while being underage.

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Tags: Hack, IRC, Scum
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Three Dronerunners Arrested

Wednesday, June 28th, 2006

A 63-year-old from England and a 28-year-old man in Scotland, and a 19-year-old man in Finland (all said to be member of the M00P online group) have been arrested and charged of “an international conspiracy to infect computers using viruses attached to unsolicited commercial e-mail,” a spokesman of the English police said.

The groups’ activities were mainly directed at businesses in the U.K. of which computers were being infected with one of three virusses: Stinx, Breplibot or Rykanos. Once infected, the virus would try and hide itself using features from Sony BMG digital rights management or other DRM software.

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Tags: Botnets, Hack, IRC
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Cracker Creates Havoc at Freenode

Monday, June 26th, 2006

Last Saturday a user who was using the nick ratbert has been creating havoc after he gained the password of Freenode’s admin Robert Levin, aka lilo.

Once gained access he kill’ed and klined staff of the network, delinked servers and send out a global notice and attempted to abuse a mIRC DCC exploit.

-ratbert- I am a fat asshole, who loves abuse, die

-ratbert- DCC SEND YOUAREALLJUDENLOL

Eventually, also network owner lilo was killed by ratbert; * lilo has quit (Killed by ratbert (die ))

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Tags: freenode, Hack, IRC, Scum
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Girls Receive Up To 25 Times More Malicious Chat

Wednesday, May 10th, 2006

The University of Maryland conducted a survey with a result we probably all knew the outcome from in advance: woman and girls on IRC receive up to 25 times more sexually oriented chat requests then their male counterparts.

When using a nick that resembled a female name, the researchers received an average of 163 malicious requests per day, while chatting with a nick that did not show their gender only 4 to 25 times a day.

The females also received more files and links then their male counterparts in the research.

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Tags: IRC
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