New Israeli startup IRSeek is indexing public Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channels at the rate of 6 million conversations a day. 300 million conversations have now been indexed by the company. The most ...

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 ...

Wow, talk about a dinosaur! IRC seems like it has been around since the dawn of time. Without dating myself, I still remember logging into BBSs back in the eighties and nineties and getting help in ...

On a recent Tuesday morning, one Internet chat group called #ccpower was bustling. A user there was selling credit card numbers, obtained illegally online, for 50 cents to $1 each, another was ...