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Honeynet Project Releases Paper on Botnets

Tuesday, March 15th, 2005

As you can see in the sidebar for IRC news I collect for you, big news today. Lately there is a lot of coverage in the general media about identity theft, DDoS nets, etc. But the paper on botnets released by the Honeynet Project gave quite a boost in the number of articles today on this subject.

The paper explains in great detail a reserach the project did on botnets, and specifically those who use IRC to receive their commands from the drone-runner.

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Tags: Botnets, DDoS, Hack, IRC, Scum
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DALnet AKILL’s FDCservers Colocation Center

Saturday, March 12th, 2005

Recently, DALnet decided to AKILL all customers from FDCservers, a co-location company quite a few shell providers have their server located at.

Ahnberg, admin at DALnet, explained to IRC-Junkie in a reaction; “I’ve heard that the abuse from them over the years has been extremely large, and that the staff working with this and the chaos their users and subcompanies (shellproviders renting rackspace, I guess) cause to our network. It is a very bothersome and time-straining thing to have to handle for our colleagues.”

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Tags: DalNET, IRC
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Freenode Policy Changes Forces Channels to Move/Rename

Thursday, March 10th, 2005

New policies concerning channel ownership is causing some stir amongst channel managers on this network which is primary in use as a base of realtime communication for open source projects. In short, the name in use of the channel must be “contingent on your group’s ownership of that name, legally or informally” as the policy explains. If you have no rights over the channel name, you must begin the channel name with an extra #, for example ##foo instead of #foo.

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Tags: freenode, IRC, Network Addons
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Google’s Desktop Search Tool Includes mIRC Plugin

Tuesday, March 8th, 2005

Google released its Desktop Search Utility which was previously only available as a beta as full version now.

Running from the desktop it can perform searches over the Net, but also includes searches over the users’ own system. It will perform a quiet index of the users’ system and display matches above those found on the Net.

Possibilities include searching through your own email and viewed pages from Netscape, Mozilla, Thunderbird and Firefox. Google hired Ben Goodger for this task, who is a developer of FireFox. Other possibilities include searching through meta data in avi’s, image formats, etc.

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Tags: IRC, mIRC
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DDoS’er of IRC network arrested

Sunday, March 6th, 2005

Tom Bral, 20 year-old from Oudenaarde in Belgium has been arrested in suspicion of DDoS’ing the Kreynet IRC network.

Kreynet is the base some commercial TV stations use in Belgium to host their chats. Bral, who is using the nick Inco on IRC, had an application going for a server link on Kreynet.

Bral used to have a server linked to the AfterNet network as well.

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Tags: AfterNet, Botnets, DDoS, Hack, KreyNet, Scum
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