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John McAfee Urges The Public Not To Panic Over Bitcoin Turmoil
John McAfee John McAfee, for many, will be more popularly known by his surname. As it would suggest he is indeed the founder of the McAfee antivirus software. It might surprise many to learn that despite the branding, he has had practically nothing to do with the company for nearly…
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John McAfee Confirms His Twitter Account Got Hacked
John McAfee Gets Hacked John McAfee is certainly an unusual fellow. Before I continue I should note that that could possibly be one the biggest understatements of the year, but I’ll be charitable for now because it gets worse. The founder of the McAfee security company, he shot to fame…
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John McAfee Settles with Intel Over Legal Battle
John McAfee seems to like making his life as difficult as possible it seems. If he isn’t suffering from heart attacks, he’s being accused of murdering someone. Well, fortunately for him, he’s got one less thing to worry about as he has settled a case with Intel over a recent…
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John McAfee Has Built a ‘Hack-Proof’ Smartphone
Perpetually bored rich man – and part-time consulting detective – John McAfee must have found himself inflicted with a bad case of the fidgets because he has yet another brand new project he’s touting to anyone who will pay attention to him. While McAfee made his name developing anti-virus packages…
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Johnny Depp to Portray John McAfee in Movie Biopic
Hollywood is making a biopic about a particularly tumultuous period in the crazy life of computer security expert and professional blowhard John McAfee, and who better to play him than big-screen kook Johnny Depp? Depp, famous for playing charmingly unhinged characters, from Edward Scissorhands to Hunter S. Thompson’s proxy Raoul…
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John McAfee Points Finger over Massive DDoS Attack
On Friday (21st October), a malicious party was responsible for a huge DDoS attack on Managed DNS infrastructure provider Dyn, taking out sites like Twitter, SoundCloud, Spotify, and reddit in the process. The attack – which Dyn described as “global in nature” – involved tens of millions of IP addresses…
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John McAfee’s Plan for a New Internet Will Make the ‘Cloud’ Obsolete
Kooky magnate John McAfee – businessman, US Presidential candidate, and alleged double murderer – has been flapping his lips again, this time to wax lyrical about his new acquisition, which he claims will destroy the ‘cloud’ and reinvent the internet as it should have been from the start. McAfee –…
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John McAfee Accused of Second Murder
Insane Libertarian billionaire John McAfee – famous for both creating the McAfee antivirus software and for allegedly killing his neighbour in Belize – could be responsible for a second murder, a new documentary about the man claims. Gringo: The dangerous life of John McAfee, directed by the Oscar-nominated Nanette Burnstein,…
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Has John McAfee Been Caught Lying About Hacking Again?
Yesterday, reports emerged that attention-seeking billionaire John McAfee had hacked the end-to-end encryption of popular messaging app WhatsApp. According to Cybersecurity Ventures, McAfee and four members of his team managed to intercept and read a WhatsApp message, sent between two Android phones in New York, from a secluded server base…
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“Hack the Pentagon” Begins This Month
Hack the Pentagon, the US intelligence agency’s new bug bounty program, is set to begin this month, its organiser HackerOne has revealed. The challenge, which is open to anyone who thinks they have the technical nous to find and exploit weaknesses in the Pentagon’s cybersecurity systems, will commence on 18th…
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John McAfee Wants China to Handle US Cybersecurity
Crackpot plutocrat and self-professed “cybersecurity legend” John McAfee believes that the US is doing such a terrible job of protecting its cybersecurity interests, and that it should outsource the task to a country better equipped at dealing with technological threats: China. Yes, McAfee thinks a nation that wants to use…
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John McAfee Lied About Hacking San Bernardino iPhone
Serial fantasist John McAfee – who claimed last week that he could stage an Ocean’s Eleven-esque infiltration of the Pentagon – has admitted to lying about his ability to hack the encryption of an iPhone. McAfee, speaking to Russia Today, CNN, and Business Insider last month, publicly offered his services…
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John McAfee Offers to Hack San Bernardino Phone to Protect Apple from FBI
Billionaire fugitive sleuth John McAfee has offered to hack the iPhone of a mass shooting suspect for the FBI in an effort to protect Apple from having to introduce backdoors into its devices. McAfee, currently a US presidential candidate for the Libertarian Party, thinks that if Apple are forced to open its…
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Future US President John McAfee Ditches the Cyber Party for Libertarianism
Capricious billionaire John McAfee – once described as “extremely paranoid, even bonkers” by the President of Belize – is like a shark: he has to keep moving (he also has great fluid dynamics and an advanced immune system, which was his inspiration for his McAfee antivirus software). After announcing his…
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