IRC News
mIRC 6.33 Released - 19 July 2008
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IRC Defender 1.5 Released - 7 June 2008
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IRC-Junkie.xml Newsfeed - 31 May 2008
Apparently I had forgot to include an urlencode somewhere which did not surface until now.
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EFnet Enables SSL Connections - 26 May 2008
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mIRC 6.32 Released - 22 May 2008
Version 6.32 of probably the most popular IRC client have been released yesterday.
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New Zealand Botnet Master Arrested - 22 May 2008
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.
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Denora 1.4.0 Released - 19 May 2008
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Eggdrop 1.6.19 Released - 8 May 2008
It took almost 2 years for a new release, and even then it consists mostly of bugfixes of which one fixes a serious issue.
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Child Pornography Channelop Receives 8 Years in Prison - 25 April 2008
A 40-year-old channel operator of a child pornography IRC channel received 8 years prison.
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XChat 2.8.7a for Windows Released - 20 April 2008
Version 2.8.7 released the 20th of last month has been superseded with 2.8.7a Zed announced on the XChat homepage .
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Beat Them at Their Own Game - 16 April 2008
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.
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IRCu Family IRCd DoS Exploit - 9 April 2008
Last month a new bug have been found in IRCu family IRCd's which can be exploited leading to a crashing server.
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Majority of Junk Traffic Consists of DDoS Targetted at IRC Servers - 8 April 2008
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.
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AustNet Moves to InspIRCd - 3 April 2008
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.
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Site Changes - 2 April 2008
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.
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Yeah Right >:) - 2 April 2008
Obviously that was a lame attempt at an April Fool's joke >:)
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