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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. According to a number of IRC administrators, the Internet Service Provider Cox...
[July 25, 2007, 15:12]
IRC Hacks: An Egg Timer
White Papers This paper shows how to create a simple IRC bot that sits in any number of channels and responds to the ! egg command. After three minutes, the bot will remind that ther egg is done, for this is how long it takes to boil the perfect egg.
[October 10, 2007, 0:00]
IRC Hacks: Search The Web With Google
White Papers This essentially means that one can use it to perform Google searches from a Java IRC bot. Searching Google from within one's own application is very easy, thanks to the Google Web APIs. The developer's kit contains a Java library that provides a...
[October 10, 2007, 0:00]
IRC Hacks: Format Text
White Papers Even though most IRC clients support color, simpler formatting can sometimes be more effective. Too much use of color tends to annoy people. In such circumstance, channel operators have at their disposal the option of banning the use of color.
[October 10, 2007, 0:00]
IRC Hacks: Automatic Completion Of Nicknames
White Papers Often when chatting on IRC one spends much of the time just typing in people's nicknames. This paper will explain the nick-completion functionality provided in several popular IRC clients. This can get tedious, so many clients have some kind of...
[October 10, 2007, 0:00]
IRC Administrators May Out-hack Fizzer Virus
News Several postings on an IRC-Security list have debated the merits of trying to shut the computer virus down, and one operator, QuakeNet security team member Daniel Ferguson, warned that manipulating the worm could be illegal.
[May 19, 2003, 7:59]
IRC Hacks: IRC With Java And PircBot
White Papers PircBot is a Java framework for writing IRC bots quickly and easily. It allows one to abstract themselves away from the underlying protocols and concentrate on making bots that do something useful. Using this framework is much easier than...
[October 10, 2007, 0:00]
IRC Hacks: IRC Over Telnet
White Papers One does not need to know about the full specification to connect to an IRC server. Connecting to an IRC server requires only a few commands to be sent. A good way of understanding how these commands work is to connect directly to an IRC server...
[October 10, 2007, 0:00]
Solomon's Digs Out IRC Worms
News The worms infect the mIRC software that lets users join chat groups and have already spread through several countries including the UK, the US and Germany. The worms (like viruses but hostless and requiring deletion) are called Simpsalapim, a...
[December 16, 1997, 10:11]
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). As soon as it has been executed, the virus sends out copies of...
[September 5, 2001, 9:33]
The Daddy Of All IRC Servers
Member Review Configuration files? No. Messing about with Domains and Zone Files? No. Ease of use? Yes. IRCXpro is one of the easiest servers I have come across to use and set it up, It's also one of the best. It has all the features of an IRCd, with an easy setup.
[September 10, 2003, 12:36]
IRC Hacks: Feed Syndicated RSS News Into IRC Channels
White Papers The abbreviation RSS stands for RDF Site Summary (or Really Simple Syndication, depending on who one believes), and it is basically a special kind of XML document that is commonly used to describe the latest items appearing on a web site.
[October 10, 2007, 0:00]
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. They believe AOL has IRC security problems and is unwilling to identify its IRC users, making it impossible to block...
[November 9, 1998, 14:21]
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]
UK Police Crack Down On Local Hackers
News Police in Surrey are investigating the role that suspected local computer hackers may have played in orchestrating attacks on popular IRC (Internet Relay Chat) servers in Europe and the US in recent months.
[January 24, 2001, 11:45]
Microsoft Closes 'unsafe' Chat Rooms
Talkback A few years ago, before the monopilsation of the internet was so obvious IRC was the most enjoyable and free means of chat - I guess this will push people back into this, which I guess puts the chat domain back into the hands of the more...
[October 17, 2003, 0:54]
Fizzer Virus Secrets Revealed
News Members of the chat-network security group IRC/Unity have decoded the manner in which the creator of the Fizzer virus can communicate with the program, a co-founder of the group said on Monday. The Fizzer virus connects from an infected PC to a...
[May 20, 2003, 11:31]
Remote Tool Attacks Windows Servers
News Online vandals are using a program to compromise Windows servers and remotely control them through Internet relay chat (IRC) networks, system administrators said on Saturday. The tool takes commands from an attacker through the IRC networks and can...
[August 4, 2003, 8:55]
IM Users Hit By Widespread 'social Hack'
News Security experts have warned that a wave of hack attacks is striking tens of thousands of PCs via instant messenger (IM) or Internet Relay Chat (IRC) clients, using nothing more high-tech than old-fashioned social engineering.
[March 20, 2002, 12:04]
W32.Aplore@mm
White Papers When connected to IRC or AIM, the worm sends a web link to IRC channels or AIM contacts which references an .html file which was dropped on the infected computer. The worm sends an email containing the attachment Psecure20x-cgi-install.version.6.01...
[May 6, 2004, 0:00]
