July 14th, 2007 by phrozen77
“Due to recent events several ZiRC staff have decided to part ways with ZiRC,” David announced on the ZiRC website. Following a series of events this week the majority of admins (including David) decided to leave the network and form a new network named synIRC. Left behind is ZiRC with just a single server.
The events that eventually led to the departure of the admins had a start in early May of this year. Due to several events Prince, the owner of ZiRC’s domain, the server housing service, and co-owner of the network, resigned from the network.
Tags: Hack, IRC, synIRC, ZiRC
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July 3rd, 2007 by phrozen77
A Romanian I.T. graduate faces court in the USA today. He has been accused of hacking systems from NASA, the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Energy Ministry as well as the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Goddard Space Flight Center. He is accused of altering data as well as installing IRC Deamons.
Victor Faur, 22-year-old from Arad, Romania, can be convicted for 12 years in prison, and paying up to $2 million in damages as claimed by NASA for repairing their systems.
Tags: Hack, IRC
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June 26th, 2007 by phrozen77
Nessun, owner of the Rizon IRC network, has been named before on this website as source of DDoS attacks. IRC-Junkie was unaware that one of the three suspects reported about in the “FBI Arrests Three Botherders” article written 10 days ago, namely Jason Michael Downey, is in fact the same Nessun.
Downey, 24, has pleaded guilty for operating a botnet and computer fraud. Asking his reasons behind performing DDoS attacks U.S. District Judge Nancy G. Edmunds heard his reply: “I was doing it because I could, more than anything,” Downey replied. “It was a dumb thing to do.”
Tags: Botnets, DDoS, Hack, IRC, Rizon, Scum
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June 25th, 2007 by phrozen77
In May 2002 the FBI and law enforcement agencies worldwide arrested members of the DrinkOrDie warez group in an operation named Operation Buccaneer. One member, Hew Raymond Griffiths who was arrested in Australia and transported to U.S.A. received a 51 month jail sentence for his part in the warez group.
Originally started in Russia in 1993 and operating from a channel on EFNet, the group quickly became a group with members worldwide. It specialized in cracking software, but also released films and music.
Tags: EFNet, IRC, Piracy
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June 21st, 2007 by phrozen77
Recently I wrote an article named “IRC: Too Complicated?”. It turned out to become one of those article that sparked a bit of discussion left and right, and caused my inbox to fill up with comments as well. The tone of some of those were much darker, that of IRC to be on the decline in general. Could it be that bad? And if so, is there a possibility it can be stopped, or is IRC really doomed? In this (much larger then you’re used too from IRC-Junkie) article I will try and find out.
Tags: IRC
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