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A Year Ago: Chat Rooms Targetted By Internet Watch Foundation
News David Kerr, chief executive of IWF believes chat rooms are "the next big problem" in the fight against child exploitation on the Internet. Kerr encourages Internet users to help the authorities by reporting suspicious activity in chat rooms...
[March 2, 2000, 5:37]
Chat Rooms Targetted By Internet Watch Foundation
News David Kerr, chief executive of IWF believes chat rooms are "the next big problem" in the fight against child exploitation on the Internet. Kerr encourages Internet users to help the authorities by reporting suspicious activity in chat rooms...
[March 2, 1999, 11:17]
Luscious Lara Unleashes IRC Worm
News The promise of a luscious Lara Croft screensaver is likely to fool Internet users into unleashing a new computer worm that spreads itself exclusively through Internet Relay Chat (IRC). Lara" spreads through an Internet chat application and...
[September 5, 2001, 9:33]
IRC Admins Claim TimeWarner Hijacks DNS To Clean Botnets
Blog Administrators of Internet Relay Chat (IRC) servers say they have recently become aware of dropping user counts from certain ISPs, especially TimeWarner owned Cox.net. Users are left guessing why they cannot chat with their friends like normal, and...
[July 25, 2007, 15:12]
Blair And Clinton Will Hold Online Chat
News UK prime minister Tony Blair and US president Bill Clinton will hold an online chat with Internet users from around the world next month, according to reports. Tony Blair is also no stranger to Web chat, talking to the nation in an online interview...
[July 3, 2000, 12:13]
A Year Ago: Blair And Clinton Will Hold Online Chat
News UK prime minister Tony Blair and US president Bill Clinton will hold an online chat with Internet users from around the world next month, according to reports. Tony Blair is also no stranger to Web chat, talking to the nation in an online interview...
[July 3, 2001, 6:28]
Chat 'bots' May Be Hacker Tool
News An international network monitoring group has alerted corporate Australia to a growing file-sharing racket that uses Internet Relay Chat "robots" to compromise networks. Internet Security Systems, which monitors networks around the world from seven...
[May 10, 2002, 10:55]
IRC Administrators May Out-hack Fizzer Virus
News Administrators of Internet relay chat networks believe they might be able to eradicate the Fizzer virus, but the methods may run them afoul of cybercrime laws, according to a legal expert. The virus, which spreads mostly through email but also...
[May 19, 2003, 7:59]
Conferencing Beta Of Normandy From Microsoft
News The software is aimed at Internet providers and Intranet developers and the Normandy Conference Server includes chat facilities and a facility for connecting users of chat applications including Internet telephony applications and online text...
[November 25, 1996, 18:33]
Romanian Hacker Bombs Chat Network
News A Romanian hacker has launched a major distributed denial of service (DDoS) forcing one of the largest IRC (Internet Relay Chat) networks, Undernet, to shut down much of its service, system administrators said Monday.
[January 9, 2001, 10:24]
AOL Booted Off Chat Network
News Internet relay chat (IRC) runs over its own set of servers on the Internet and allows users to send and receive real-time messages. The cutoff does not affect AOL's Instant Messenger chat service. They believe AOL has IRC security problems and is...
[November 9, 1998, 14:21]
IWF Crackdown On Net Paedophiles Gets £100,000
News The UK's online pornography regulator the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) announced over £100,000 of additional funding on Monday to help implement some of the recommendations contained in the government-backed Chat Wise, Street Wise report.
[April 3, 2001, 15:13]
Naughton Lawyers Try Role-playing Defence
News As Patrick Naughton's trial gets underway Tuesday in Los Angeles, his attorneys will test a new Internet-related defence strategy -- namely that their client was role playing in the fantasy world of chat rooms and never really believed he was...
[December 8, 1999, 6:00]
Government Denies It Is Demonising The Web
News The £1m campaign will run on TV and radio, and in some Internet chat rooms, for the whole of January. Taking part in an online Web chat organised by BBC Online, Benn insisted that the move will help parents and children to understand how to use the...
[January 6, 2003, 16:21]
Yahoo! Racist Chatrooms 'untouchable'
News User-created chatrooms entitled "White Pride White Power KKK" and "National White Pride Association" are disseminating racist voice-chat to Internet users -- including those in the UK where incitement of racial hatred is a criminal offence.
[May 23, 2001, 12:45]
Windows 2000 Source Code Posted Online
News It was on the peer-to-peer networks and IRC [Internet relay chat] today," Ruiu said. Microsoft is investigating how a file containing some protected source code to Windows 2000 was posted to several underground sites and chat rooms.
[February 13, 2004, 7:20]
Investigation Confirms Chatroom Dangers
News for what was branded an irresponsible chatroom policy, warning that unmonitored Internet chat will increase the number of attacks on children in theUK. Jan Butter, reporter for the Western Mail, spent two hours in MSN chatrooms such as "younger...
[December 18, 2000, 10:41]
Illegal 'Matrix' Sequel Available On P2P
News The news sparked a frenzy of activity in Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channels and other forums dedicated to movie swapping. Some individuals claimed in chat sessions that they had seen copies of the movie, a sequel to the blockbuster "The Matrix," as...
[May 15, 2003, 10:22]
Net Offers Lifeline Amid Tragedy
News One New York resident who couldn't get to traditional news sources over a T-1 line jumped onto IRC, or Internet Relay Chat, to find footage of the plane crashes and get information on the events. Unable to connect via wireless and landline phones...
[September 12, 2001, 10:58]
High-tech Paedophiles: No Surprise To FBI
News In Naughton's case, an FBI agent encountered Naughton in an Internet chat room, while the agent was posing as a 13-year-old girl, according to an affidavit filed in the case. Associates of an Infoseek exec arrested for using chat to solicit a minor...
[September 21, 1999, 10:05]
