Freenode IRC security notice
Sep. 13th, 2014 06:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pauamma posting in ![[site community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/comm_staff.png){kind=small}
dw_volunteersPassing on the news, for those of you who only connect to Freenode IRC infrequently and may not get the news otherwise:
One of the Freenode servers was compromised and they're recommending all registered users change their nickserv password. To do that, log in to Freenode as you usually do, then type:
One of the Freenode servers was compromised and they're recommending all registered users change their nickserv password. To do that, log in to Freenode as you usually do, then type:
/msg nickserv set password yournewpasswordgoeshereor use the equivalent feature for your favorite IRC client, if it doesn't understand the /msg command.
