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Researchers Create Social Engineering IRC Bot
An anonymous reader writes "Researchers at the Vienna University of Technology developed an IRC bot that acts as a 'man in the middle' between two unsuspecting users, modifies URLs passed between them, and also is capable of steering the conversation. Not only does this work surprisingly well on IRC — they found a 76.1% click rate for potentially malicious URLs — but four out of 10 people on Facebook Chat also clicked on links after the bot introduced complete strangers to each other. This would have worked even better if the bot were to clone existing friends' profiles and submit friend requests from those, say researchers."
i think i'll let everyone know how we been doing some hacks with bots
bots to scan for vulnerabilities
bots to launch the exploit
BOTS for file sharing
bots to call home
bots to eat my toast...HEY THAT'S MY TOAST
I see you like utter idiots, concur. Watch this video your viewing pleasure.. Very wonderful.
Well, he didn't write that. A bot changed it during submission. :-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
Indeed, I only trust the zeroes, not the ones.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
For the lulz, about 10 years ago, I created an IRC bot that connected to #sex and #cybersex in dalnet, and pretended to be a young girl awaiting for cyber..
Then it would interconnect pairs of two who would talk to her and forward the message, but this didn't work for long because they'd soon figure out the opposite partner was of the same sex. So i added a functionality that would flip words, example penis vagina, boobs balls, and would intercept some messages (like if a peer requested a picture, or ASL request) and send a fake ASL or URL of a hot chick. After a few attempts, most of the pairs ended up having cyber anyway!
Even though bizarre phrases happened (like "I want to insert my 8 inch vagina into your deep wet penis") most people amazingly didn't even find it strange, and even though it was probably left running all night and created more probably a hundred "encounters", no one even suspected a tiny little about what was going on, no one!
That's not creepy AT ALL
And as a result your programming skills have gone up considerably, why your and your friends's score with women is still 0. However, if I'm wrong and it's not 0, please entertain us with the stories about meeting those men who diguised themselves as women on IRC. Thinking about it, the score will still be 0, but we all have a good laugh.
noscript blocks all of the above (except for adobe, which is a company).