I grew up in the 2000s, so it might be a surprising statement when I say that much of my introduction to the internet, technology, and gaming came from Internet Relay Chat, also known as IRC. As a kid ...

Last year marked the 30th anniversary of the Internet Relay Chat protocol (IRC) and it is hard to imagine that [Jarkko Oikarinen] could have foreseen the impact his invention would one day have on the ...

A hacker based in Romania has launched a major distributed denial-of-service attack, forcing one of the largest Internet Relay Chat networks, Undernet, to shut down much of its service, system ...

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, ...

The most recent actions by Anonymous, it seems – which have largely gone unreported by the mainstream media – were against pro-Tunisian government sites earlier this month. The attacks were peripheral ...

The most savvy and sophisticated botnet operators are bringing out the big guns now -- operating deeper underground and staging massive distributed denial-of-service attacks on their adversaries. Jose ...

Find out how to reconnect to Slack over IRC using a Bitlbee libpurple plugin. I'm an IRC kind of guy. I appreciate the simplicity of pure text chat, emoticons instead of emojis, and the vast array of ...