The John McAfee story continues with more “drama.” According to a post published on his blog, the antivirus software pioneer will be released from detention after a Guatemalan judge has determined that his arrest was illegal.
Furthermore, his representatives believe that he will be allowed to return to the US as he wanted.
A 22-year-old U.K. man was convicted for his involvement in a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks launched by the hacktivist group Anonymous against PayPal, MasterCard, Visa and other companies in 2010.
Christopher Weatherhead, of Northampton, U.K., was convicted Thursday at London's Southwark Crown Court on one count of conspiracy to impair the operation of computers, contrary to the U.K. Criminal Law Act of 1977, the U.K.'s Crown Prosecution Service said in a blog post.
Software company founder John McAfee was arrested by Guatemalan police for entering the country illegally, ending his bizarre weekslong journey as a blogging fugitive claiming to be persecuted by authorities in Belize.
An Ecuadorian blogger who documented a security hole in Ecuador’s national online identity database by registering as the nation’s president was released from jail today after the president personally intervened in the matter.
The ongoing saga of John McAfee, the tech entrepreneur-turned-fugitive, took a twist today when Vice magazine published a photo that appeared to indicate he had taken refuge in Guatemala.
That deduction was based on the EXIF location metadata associated with the image, which the camera applications included with iOS and Android devices include, depending on what privacy settings are configured. Some news organizations, as well as Sophos, seized on that apparent security lapse.
When it comes to John McAfee, nothing's ever easy.
The antivirus software pioneer and Internet security mogul – pick whichever common description of McAfee you prefer – may or may not still be hiding out in Belize at the moment, depending on which news source you believe.
The Dutch government said on Wednesday it plans to introduce a new law to force suspected terrorists and paedophiles to hand over computer passwords and punish those who refuse to comply.
"People suspected of having and trading in child pornography or terrorist activities will soon be compelled to work together to open encrypted files on their computers," the Dutch justice ministry said in a statement.
A group of current and former contractors at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) may file a lawsuit due to the possible exposure of personal information stored on an agency laptop stolen last month from a locked car, their lawyer said Wednesday.
The laptop, stolen on Oct. 31, stored the personal data of some10,000 NASA employees and contractors.
Police have swooped on a Romanian hacking ring accused of being behind Australia's largest credit card fraud.
The gang is alleged to have stolen half a million banking details and cashed out some $30 million in goods from 30,000 credit cards.
The Center for Copyright Information, which will be punishing Internet copyright infringers by administering a "six strikes" warning system, was scheduled to start operations before the end of this year.
But today CCI announced that the rollout will be delayed at least a few months, until "early 2013." The reason given: damage from Hurricane Sandy, "which affected our testing schedules."
