Re: [PEN-TEST] IRC

["Brooke, O'neil (EXP)" <o'neil.brooke () LMCO COM>]

I don't think that the Irc protocol will cause any compromises. There are
some Irc client vulnerabilities and you may want to check into those.
Perhaps packetstorm.securify.com and www.tlsecurity.com could help you
there.

One of the problems with IRC is that there are some nasty people out there
and they are able to identify the computers you are using to get onto IRC.
If someone goes into IRC via your Internet feed and annoys the script
kiddies your firewall may get hit with DDOS attacks and other probes. This
does not really have to do with the IRC protocol, but more to do with human
nature.

 -----Original Message-----
From:   Beauregard, Claude Q [mailto:CQBeauregard () AAAMICHIGAN COM]
Sent:   Thursday, February 22, 2001 1:49 PM
To:     PEN-TEST () SECURITYFOCUS COM
Subject:        [PEN-TEST] IRC

Does anyone know where I can get good documentation on the weakness of IRC
and how allowing such a service through the firewall can compormise
security.

Thanks