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Reportedly, John McAfee has died of suicide hours after the Spanish High Court authorized his extradition to the United States. According to local Spanish media, Mr. John McAfee, the founder of antivirus company McAfee has died in a prison near Barcelona, Spain. 75-year-old McAfee allegedly died by Suicide on Wednesday afternoon, hours after the Spanish High Court authorized his extradition […]
The entrepreneur has always been involved in controversy John McAfee, an information security community personality, has been found legally ‘liable’ for the death of his neighbor, who was found dead because of a gunshot wound to his head at his home in Belize, in the year 2012, report experts in digital forensics and cybersecurity from […]
The presumably unhackable Bitfi wallet backed by John McAfee has released a statement announcing that the unhackable tag will be removed from their marketing materials. The step comes after the device’s security was compromised by a Twitter user under the name @spudowiar. The associated bounty program has also been suspended. However, the company has launched […]
Bezop, a cryptocurrency startup exposed highly personal details of more than 25,000 of its investors online which were publicly accessible to anyone with an Internet connection. The platform which is supported by John McAfee left the personal details exposed due to an unprotected MongoDB database. The exposed data included full names, email addresses, physical addresses, wallet information, […]
The official Twitter account of security guru John McAfee was apparently hacked on December 28th. As a result, the verified account with 531k followers was used by an unknown hacker to send several tweets promoting not so popular cryptocurrencies like Siacoin, NXT, XRP, PTOY, and BAT. Tweets sent by the hacker Although it is unclear how it happened McAfee claims the two-factor authentication […]
It was last year when, John McAfee, the co-founder of an antivirus company that’s now owned by Intel, took Intel to the court over the right to use his name for commercial purposes. John McAfee wanted to rename his company MGT Capital to John McAfee Global Technologies. Intel also filed a counter case involving trademark infringements […]
John McAfee, noted liar and one-time creator of anti-virus software, apparently tried to convince reporters that he hacked the encryption used on WhatsApp. To do this, he attempted to send them phones with preinstalled malware and then convince them he was reading their encrypted conversations. In April, WhatsApp announced that it had added automatic end-to-end […]
Short Bytes: In his latest interview, cybersecurity pioneer and the U.S. presidential hopeful John McAfee has said that he lied to media about how he would crack open the San Bernardino shooting iPhone. He justifies his action by calling it necessary to gain some attention and reaching out to the public. In an op-ed published in Business […]
Short Bytes: “Cybersecurity legend” John McAfee has bashed the policies of American government’s stance on encryption. Taking Apple’s side, McAfee has offered FBI to allow him to decrypt the iPhone, free of charge. He called it a way to avoid the beginning of creation of backdoors in the devices. The recent feud between Apple and FBI […]
Short Bytes: The maker of McAfee antivirus and privacy advocate John McAfee is again in the headlines. In his latest op-ed, he stresses upon the need of encryption, calling it a necessity. Bashing the governments who demand restrictions on encryption measures, he says that Obama administration lacks the real understanding of privacy. John McAfee, the most […]
Short Bytes: John McAfee has found a new job for the time being as the Chief Evangelist of Everykey, a tiny device that claims to replace all you security measures. “When Everykey is close to your phone, laptop, tablet, house door, car door, or another access-controlled device, it unlocks that device. When you walk away, that […]