May 22nd, 2008 by phrozen77
An 18-year-old New Zealand suspect has been arrested in a botnet case. He is suspected of controlling a botnet consisting over 1 million infected computers and having caused nearly 13.5 Euro million in damages.
The botnet consists of AKBot worm infected machines. The botnet has been used to attack IRC networks, security companies and the University of Philadelphia.
“He is extremely clever”, said Maarten Kleintjes, head of the computer criminality department.
He is also acused of leading a worldwide network called the A-Team with members from New Zealand, Holland and the USA. New Zealand police worked togheter with the FBI on this arrest, codenamed “AKILL”.
Tags: Botnets, DDoS, IRC
Posted in Botnets/DDoS, IRC | 1 Comment »
May 22nd, 2008 by phrozen77
Version 6.32 of probably the most popular IRC client have been released yesterday.
“This version of mIRC builds on recent releases by focusing on stability and reliability and addressing the various issues that have been reported by users since the last release. It includes cosmetic changes to the interface, fixes, optimizations, and improvements to the scripting language,” the mIRC website reports.
Some of the major changes include longer nicknames, channel names and messages as well as longer variables in scripting. Other changes include:
* Added support for network-specific window position saving.
Tags: IRC, mIRC, Software
Posted in Clients, IRC, Software, mIRC | 5 Comments »
May 19th, 2008 by phrozen77
“Yes. Oh, yes… It’s there,” the Denora website announced. “Over two years and 9 months after the last stable release, we now finally set the next major version in the wild: Denora 1.4.0! There have been hundreds of changes, improvements and fixes. We believe Denora 1.4 will bring you a more reliable and satisfying experience.”
Tags: Denora, IRC, Network Addons, Software
Posted in IRC, Network Addons, Software | 1 Comment »
May 8th, 2008 by phrozen77
It took almost 2 years for a new release, and even then it consists mostly of bugfixes of which one fixes a serious issue.
Version 1.6.19 of the popular IRC bot Eggdrop fixes a buffer overflow issue in the server module. It is exploitable by a malicious server. As long as the bot connects to a reputable server it should be OK.
IRC-Junkie tried to contact Guppy with a few questions but has received no reply so far, partly explaining the delay in reporting this new release.
A list of all updates according to the updates.txt file:
Tags: Eggdrop, IRC, Software
Posted in IRC, Software | 2 Comments »
April 25th, 2008 by phrozen77
A 40-year-old channel operator of a child pornography IRC channel received 8 years prison.
An investigation led by Interpol resulted in the arrest of 25 channel members worldwide spread over 10 countries. The channel operator, Brian Martin from Oregon USA, has now been sentenced to 8 years in prison. On his computer more then 5,000 images of child pornography have been found.
The channel served as a trading place where members exchanged newly found child pornography files, including video files.
Martin requested to remain free pending an appeal of his conviction, but U.S. District Judge Ancer L. Haggerty denied that request.
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Tags: IRC, Scum
Posted in IRC | 9 Comments »
