August 15th, 2008 by phrozen77
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.
Tags: Botnets, DDoS, IRC
Posted in Botnets/DDoS, IRC | 3 Comments »
August 12th, 2008 by phrozen77
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.
Tags: IRC, mIRC, Software
Posted in Clients, IRC, Software, mIRC | 3 Comments »
August 9th, 2008 by phrozen77
..phrozen77 and i am the new operator of this fine website.
First of, i want to thank Asmo for doing such a great job with it for oh so long, thank you and kudos for keeping up with it.
I hope i can keep the site up-to-date with interesting articles and tidbits from the big world of IRC just as he did.
He set pretty high standarts the last few years so i really hope i can fulfill the expectations of our loyal readers 
All the best wishes to Asmo and his family, i hope to still see you around here!
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Tags: Site News
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August 3rd, 2008 by phrozen77
Lately I hardly found the time to put in this site to keep it a worthwhile read. Hence I’m considering letting it go to new hands. After running the site for more then a decade not a decision I took lightly…
The care of our son and other activities made me make this decision. There’s simply too little time to write anything like I used to do. Researching articles and writing an in depth article can easily take 3-4 hours which I simply can’t realize at this moment. Added on top of that I can’t spent as much time actually chatting on IRC either, so I’m starting to loose touch with the community itself.
Tags: Site News
Posted in Site News | 9 Comments »
July 19th, 2008 by phrozen77
“This version of mIRC continues to build on recent releases and addresses a number of issues that have been reported by users since the last release. It includes improvements, changes and fixes to a number of features”, the mIRC website reports.
“In particular, a new editbox “automatic” lines option has been added that dynamically changes the size of the editbox in a window to show the whole of your typed message, up to half the size of the window. This allows you to easily see and review a long, multiple-line message while keeping the size of the editbox small when it is not in use.”
Tags: IRC, mIRC, Software
Posted in Clients, IRC, Software, mIRC | 5 Comments »
