IRC News

Back in April 2004

Apparently I had forgot to include an urlencode somewhere which did not surface until now.

Version 6.32 of probably the most popular IRC client have been released yesterday.

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.

It took almost 2 years for a new release, and even then it consists mostly of bugfixes of which one fixes a serious issue.

Back in April 2004

A 40-year-old channel operator of a child pornography IRC channel received 8 years prison.

Version 2.8.7 released the 20th of last month has been superseded with 2.8.7a Zed announced on the XChat homepage .

As a recent post also indicated, botnets are considered one of the main Internet security threats. Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have proposed a new piece of software that can detect botnets, named BotSniffer.

Last month a new bug have been found in IRCu family IRCd's which can be exploited leading to a crashing server.

Security Service Provider Arbor Networks studied the amount of junk traffic over the total sum of Internet traffic, and found some remarkable figures when it comes to IRC traffic.

After being based on a modified IRCu for a long period of time, AustNet moves to an InspIRCd based IRCd. IRC-Junkie asks AustNet's Praetorian about the how, why and what of this change.

OK I know, this headline is one you've seen a few times before the past few months. In my rush to get phpBB out of the door I've probably took less time with the way things looked then I should have.

Obviously that was a lame attempt at an April Fool's joke >:)