An international network monitoring group has alerted corporate Australia to a growing file-sharing racket that uses Internet Relay Chat "robots" to compromise networks. That, and the recent release ...
Cameron is a self-made geek, Android enthusiast, horror movie fanatic, musician, and cyclist. When he's not pounding keys here at AP, you can find him spending time with his wife and kids, plucking ...
One of the most famous IRC bots is Eggdrop, and it's still actively developed today. An Eggdrop bot is basically a small program you run on a server that connects to IRC 24/7 with a certain nickname, ...
A new Internet Relay Channel (IRC) bot, which is built with the help of the Perl language-based Shellbot, is targeting Windows-based environments, along with Ubuntu Linux and even Android devices, ...
You may have heard about Hackaday’s contest to win one of 20 Fubarino boards. We included an example entry from [Mike]. Here’s my example entry for the contest: An IRC search Bot powered by a Wicked ...
A security researcher claims to have uncovered a botnet being built by Romanian hackers using the “Shellshock” exploit against servers on a number of high-profile domains, including servers at Yahoo ...
A variant of the "Tsunami" IRC-based distributed denial-of-service bot that has been developed for Linux over the past 10 years has been found for OS X systems. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past ...
Welcome to the song you'll be humming for the rest of the week. This link was posted in our forums and after watching it a few dozen times I'm convinced it's the best thing I may have ever seen in my ...