Posts Tagged ‘Harass’

Firefox Bug Used to Harass Entire IRC Network

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

A group of self-declared Internet trolls, called the GNAA, has used an old but obscure attack method to wreak havoc on the Freenode IRC network. Users were forced to execute IRC commands after visiting maliciously crafted Web pages.

The vulnerability leveraged in this attack dates back to 2001 and affects the HTML form implementation i… (more…)