IRC Protocol Explained<\/title>\r\n <style>\r\n body {\r\n font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif;\r\n background-color: #f0f2f5;\r\n margin: 0;\r\n padding: 30px;\r\n }\r\n h1 {\r\n color: #34495e;\r\n }\r\n .section {\r\n background-color: #ffffff;\r\n border-radius: 10px;\r\n padding: 20px;\r\n margin-bottom: 25px;\r\n box-shadow: 0 4px 6px rgba(0,0,0,0.1);\r\n }\r\n h2 {\r\n color: #2c3e50;\r\n margin-top: 0;\r\n }\r\n p {\r\n line-height: 1.6;\r\n color: #555;\r\n }\r\n <\/style>\r\n<\/head>\r\n<body>\r\n\r\n <h1>\ud83c\udf10 IRC (Internet Relay Chat)<\/h1>\r\n\r\n <div class=\"section\">\r\n <h2>\ud83d\udcdc Overview<\/h2>\r\n <p>\r\n IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is a protocol for real-time text messaging between internet-connected computers created in 1988. It is mainly used for group discussion in chat rooms called \u201cchannels\u201d although it supports private messages between two users, data transfer, and various server-side and client-side commands. \r\n As of April 2011, the top 100 IRC networks served over 500,000 users at a time on hundreds of thousands of channels.\r\n <\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <div class=\"section\">\r\n <h2>\ud83d\udcac Chat Functionality<\/h2>\r\n <p>\r\n IRC was designed for collaboration and public discussion. Channels are open spaces where users gather around shared interests. The protocol supports private chats and file sharing as well.\r\n <\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <div class=\"section\">\r\n <h2>\ud83d\udee1\ufe0f IRC in Cybersecurity<\/h2>\r\n <p>\r\n IRC is a popular method used by botnet owners to send commands to the individual computers in their botnet. This is done either on a specific channel, on a public IRC network, or on a separate IRC server. \r\n The IRC server containing the channel(s) that are used to control bots is referred to as a \u201ccommand and control\u201d or C2 server.\r\n <\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n<\/body>\r\n<\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IRC Protocol Explained \ud83c\udf10 IRC (Internet Relay Chat) \ud83d\udcdc Overview IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is a protocol for real-time text messaging between internet-connected computers created in 1988. It is mainly used for group discussion in chat rooms called \u201cchannels\u201d although it supports private messages between two users, data transfer, and various server-side and client-side commands. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":306,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-349","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skychatz.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skychatz.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skychatz.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skychatz.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skychatz.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/skychatz.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":665,"href":"https:\/\/skychatz.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/349\/revisions\/665"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skychatz.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skychatz.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

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