The Fizzer computer virus is causing headaches for more than just its victims. The mass-mailing computer virus, which continued to spread on Wednesday, nearly overwhelmed several Internet relay chat ...

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QuakeNet, one of the oldest IRC networks on the Web, has condemned Britain’s GCHQ for their hypocrisy – after it was revealed the agency launched DDoS attacks against IRC servers used by supporters of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Popular Internet relay chat network Freenode is asking users to change passwords after discovering its servers have been breached. "The freenode infra team noticed an anomaly on a single IRC server.