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IRC protocols and insecurity
From: proc ps <procps () softhome net>
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2004 21:00:17 +0800
Hello,I've been looking for any white papers that describe the security/technical aspects of the IRC protocol, but so far just found mIRC exploits and insecurities.
I'm trying to secure a building network based on an OpenBSD 3.5 server and Win32 clients.
As the clients purpose are just for file sharing, email, internet access, instant messaging and some irc usage for the students.
How can I secure/scan for virii what the members are downloading via IRC? How about the possibilities of hijacking connections via IRC? What are the threats that can come to this network via the IRC protocol?
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Current thread:
- IRC protocols and insecurity proc ps (Sep 07)
- Re: IRC protocols and insecurity Chris Green (Sep 08)
- Re: IRC protocols and insecurity Jose Maria Lopez (Sep 09)
- Re: IRC protocols and insecurity DokFLeed.Net (Sep 09)
- Re: IRC protocols and insecurity Barrie Dempster (Sep 11)
- Re: IRC protocols and insecurity David Coppa (Sep 14)
- Re: IRC protocols and insecurity Barrie Dempster (Sep 11)
- RE: IRC protocols and insecurity Rob Shein (Sep 13)
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- RE: IRC protocols and insecurity Todd Towles (Sep 10)