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 ...

Members of the chat-network security group IRC/Unity have decoded the manner in which the creator of the Fizzer virus can communicate with the program, a co-founder of the group said on Monday. The ...

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 ...

Between 2003 and 2012 alone, IRC networks collectively lost around 60% of their users. In other words, by the time I was using IRC, it was already well past its prime. There were still hundreds 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 ...

Freenode, the open-source project that powers Internet Relay Chat (IRC) networks, is involved in the most recent scandal after some of its developers quickly called it quits for the org. According to ...

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.

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 ...

Although kids these days tend to hang out on so-called “Social Media”, Internet Relay Chat (IRC) was first, by decades. IRC is a real-time communication technology that allows people to socialize ...