Activity of the OSGeo Community quite heavily relies on the Freenode IRC network, so this may be an interesting news:

hackers are exploiting a weakness in the Mozilla Firefox browser to wreak havoc on Freenode and other networks that cater to users of internet relay chat.

Here is the whole story Firefox-based attack wreaks havoc on IRC users posted to The Register

Mr Dan Goodin, I would wish you don’t cultivate the mainstream media alignment regarding the use of word hacker. Don’t call a hacker someone who has unlawful intentions, please.