Irc servers hacking

War rages between competing factions within the hacker collective Anonymous after this weekend's drama-filled takeover of the main Anonymous IRC server network. That network, used by Anons to plan and conduct attacks, was taken over by one of its own, an IRC moderator known as "Ryan.

The main Internet chat servers used by Anonymous have been run by a group called "AnonOps," which provides communications platforms for the group. Pointing IRC clients at anonops. Though Anonymous is often described as leaderless, factions like AnonOps by necessity have a loose structure; servers must be paid for, domain names must be registered, chat channels must have at least some moderation. Ryan was one of those IRC mods, and this weekend he proceeded with an attack that seized control of the AnonOps servers away from the small cabal of leaders who ran it.

Those leaders include people with handles like "shitstorm," "Nerdo," "blergh," "Power2All," and "Owen"—and if you're paying attention, you'll remember that HBGary Federal's Aaron Barr had fingered Owen as one of three "leaders" of all Anons. The most popular channel on the old IRC servers now says simply, "anonops dead go home. In the transcript below, "doom" is one of the AnonOps servers.

The "old" leaders released a statement this morning explaining what happened over the weekend and why IRC remained down:. We regret to inform you today that our network has been compromised by a former IRC-operator and fellow helper named "Ryan". He decided that he didn't like the leaderless command structure that AnonOps Network Admins use. So he organized a coup d'etat, with his "friends" at skidsr. Using the networks service bot "Zalgo" he scavenged the IP's and passwords of all the network servers including the hub and then systematically aimed denial of service attacks at them which is why the network has been unstable for the past week.

Unfortunately he has control of the domain names AnonOps. Not everyone buys the explanation. One Anon pointed out that the Zalgo bot in question is controlled by a user named "E," not by Ryan.

Second, Zalgo can only see chan msgs and msgs to zalgo. The net staff is saying pretty much Ryan used Zalgo to steal server passwords false, I know server protocol which were tranfered in channels in plain text for the to see true. Third: Take everything AnonOps says with a grain of salt. Check out jkmicro. Sorry for not responding to you when you connected a few days ago looking for info for the article, Chris. Where can I easily learn all this hacker stuff?!? And wanting to learn some of this newer stuff.

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New York Hacking Society. Null Space Labs. Omega Verksted. Open Space Aarhus. Opennet - Frieda This can be partly attributed to its ease of use, but seasoned IRC users will also find that it provides all of the powerful features they want. Like most Windows software, installation is quite straightforward, and it will offer you the chance to create a desktop icon to run it.

The first time you run mIRC, it will pop up the Connect dialog automatically, where you must provide some details as in Figure This is where you can specify your full name if you want! Because this is visible to all other IRC users, most people try to protect their anonymity to some extent by entering something funny instead. This is obviously useful if you want other IRC users to be able to contact you, but most people tend to enter fake addresses for fear of spam.

Here you can specify your nicknames. Whenever you say something on IRC, it will appear to come from your nickname. Because all nicknames on an IRC server must be unique, the dialog requests an alternative nickname, as somebody else may already be connected and using your preferred nickname. If you are ultraparanoid about your privacy, then make sure you leave the Invisible Mode checkbox ticked. This will make it harder for people to find you, unless they know your nickname or are in the same channels as you.

Click on the OK button, and you will be faced with the main Status window. Messages from the IRC server typically end up here. After a moment, you will be connected to one of the servers in this IRC network. This will be used to display all messages sent to that channel.

It also contains a list of all users in that channel, as shown in Figure Typing a message and pressing Enter will cause your message to be sent to the channel and received by all of these users. You can send a private message directly to another user by double-clicking on her nickname.

This brings up a new window in which you can talk directly to that user. As you become more experienced with mIRC, you will probably feel like exploring the configuration options. With these, you can change colors, fonts, aliases, pop-up menus, and sounds and use advanced scripting features. Some of the hacks later in this book will show you how to get the most out of mIRC.

XChat is a popular IRC client with a graphical user interface. You can download the source code or precompiled binaries for a variety of platforms. When you first run XChat, you will be presented with a Server List dialog box. The first task is to go down to the bottom and select Edit Mode. From there, you can see all your server settings. Next examine the top area marked Global User Info. The top three boxes are for your nickname.

Most of the time, you will connect with your first listed nickname; however, if that name is already in use by another user, it will try again with the second and then with the third. Your username is used internally by the server to form your host mask, although some servers will try to use an Ident call [Hack 80] to look up your username instead.

Your chosen username will be used if the Ident call fails. You can use your nickname, an alternate nickname, or just about anything you want here—although it may be truncated and must not contain any special characters. Your real name can also be anything you want, but it can be longer and can include spaces.

The next step is to configure your servers. XChat comes with a lot of servers listed, and it may already have the one you want; if not, you can click Add above the list of servers to create a new one. This will create a New Network. Most IRC servers will let you connect to this port, and many will even have alternative ports as well.

Here are some example servers:. Finally, if you know what channels you want to connect to, place them in the Join Channels box. Use commas to specify more than one channel, for example:. You are now ready to connect to an IRC server. Click the Connect button and wait until you are connected. Select the new server from the list, but this time use Connect in a New Tab to create a separate tab for this new server.

If you forget to do this, you will disconnect from your current server and connect to the new one in the existing tab. To do this, select the network from your server list and check Auto Connect at Startup. If you do this, you may also want to check the No Server List at Startup option. For example:. In most cases, you will connect to a round-robin server, which will automatically pick a server and direct you there.

If you find a particular server that behaves more stably that any of the others, you can set the server of your choice at the top of the server list for your network. You can then click the Add button to add another one in case your preferred one is down.

If you want to use a different nickname on a certain network, select the network in the server list and uncheck Use Global User Info.

You can then fill in a nickname, username, and real name for this server. The XChat interface can be customized in a number of ways. The first few are simple visibility options. Right-click a blank area in the IRC window, and you can select on and off options for the menu bar, topic bar, mode buttons, and user list buttons.

Select whatever combination makes you happy. There are far too many preferences to detail here, so you may like to play around with them and see what you can achieve. Here are some items worth noting:.