Collaborate Disseminate
In the early days of the internet, online conversations were an event. The technology was novel, and it was suddenly possible to socialize with a whole bunch of friends at …read more Continue reading How Facebook Killed Online Chat
In the beginning, there was the BIOS, and it was good. A PC’s BIOS knows how to set up the different hardware devices, grab a fixed part of a hard …read more Continue reading IRC Client on Bare Metal
I am a newbie cyber security engineer working on IoT. Today, a task is given to me. The task was making pentest to a cooker. Because of the privacy, I cannot share the brand of the cooker. The cooker has its own wifi card and connects to w… Continue reading Next movement in IoT pentest when you have restricted information
I’m trying to develop a way to send encrypted strings over Internet Relay Chat with RSA in Go.
So far I have developed this code to send the encrypted string over IRC.
package main
import (
"crypto/rand"
"cr… Continue reading RSA encrypted communication over IRC
If I run an IRC server, and my friend and I connect over TLS and chat, is the conversation essentially end-to-end encrypted because all computers that see the plaintext messages are owned by one of the participants?
The recent flurry of projects based around Internet Relay Chat (IRC) should be a fair indication that the beloved protocol is not going anywhere. Now, thanks to [Mike Chambers], you …read more Continue reading IRC Server for MS-DOS
The big kerfuffle in the open source world this week surrounds the biggest IRC server operator, Freenode. Wherever the dust settles, myriad important open source projects that use Freenode’s IRC …read more Continue reading IRC Will Never Die
It’s no secret that Internet Relay Chat (IRC) has lost some of its appeal in recent years. These days there’s plenty of free chat platforms boasting slick web interfaces and …read more Continue reading Freenode Debacle Prompts Staff Exodus, New Network
Although first presented to the world as an April 1st joke, [Jotun]’s IRC-enabled lawnmower began life as the result of casual bantering among folk on the Undernet IRC network. When …read more Continue reading Is It A Lawnmower? Is It an RPi IRC Server? It’s Both!
By Sudais Asif
According to Checkpoint, the “FreakOut” malware attacks is exploiting “newest vulnerabilities.” Here’s a full list of its capabilities.
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Ongoing ‘FreakOut’ malware attac… Continue reading Ongoing ‘FreakOut’ malware attack turns Linux devices into IRC botnet