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Controversial mogul and antivirus pioneer John McAfee on Wednesday died by suicide in a jail cell in Barcelona, hours after reports that he would be extradited to face federal charges in the U.S. McAfee was 75. Security personnel at the Brians 2 prison tried to revive McAfee, but he was eventually declared dead, per Associated Press.
Former antivirus software creator John McAfee has died in what is reported to be a suicide as he waited for extradition to face tax evasion charges in the USA. McAfee was arrested in Spain in October 2020, where he was awaiting extradition to the US for allegedly not paying taxes on cryptocurrency, consulting, and other business arrangements. Hours after extradition was approved by Spanish courts, El Pais reported that McAfee was found dead in his cell from an apparent suicide where resuscitation attempts failed to revive him.
John McAfee, the creator of McAfee antivirus software, was found dead in his jail cell near Barcelona in an apparent suicide Wednesday, hours after a Spanish court approved his extradition to the United States to face tax charges punishable by decades in prison, authorities said. Born in England's Gloucestershire in 1945 as John David McAfee, he started McAfee Associates in 1987 and led an eccentric life after selling his stake in the antivirus software company named after him in the early 1990s.
John McAfee, the creator of the McAfee antivirus software, has been found dead in his cell in a jail near Barcelona, a government official told The Associated Press on Wednesday. read more
British-American software tycoon John McAfee was found dead in his cell in a Barcelona prison on Wednesday. The 75-year-old antivirus baron - who founded McAfee Associates in the 1980s and made a fortune before more or less retiring in the mid-1990s - was being held in Sant Esteve Sesrovires.
British-American software tycoon John McAfee was found dead in his cell in a Barcelona prison on Wednesday. The 75-year-old antivirus baron - who founded McAfee Associates in the 1980s and made a fortune before more or less retiring in the mid-1990s - was being held in Sant Esteve Sesrovires.
FireEye has been sold for $1.2bn to the same American private equity fund that bought McAfee's enterprise security business, severing it from infosec stablemate Mandiant. The sale to Symphony Technology Group will see threat intel and incident response business Mandiant return to the market as a standalone operation in Q4 this year, FireEye said in a statement.
The UK's Competition and Markets Authority has reached agreement with antivirus vendor McAfee that means some customers whose software subscription was automatically renewed will be able to get a refund. It's quite the slap on the wrist for McAfee, whose software tends to be bundled with a large number of devices sold in the UK. Customers who signed up with the company may not have understood the ins and outs of auto-renewal, hence the CMA action.
The UK's Competition and Markets Authority has reached agreement with antivirus vendor McAfee that means some customers whose software subscription was automatically renewed will be able to get a refund. It's quite the slap on the wrist for McAfee, whose software tends to be bundled with a large number of devices sold in the UK. Customers who signed up with the company may not have understood the ins and outs of auto-renewal, hence the CMA action.
McAfee announced significant expansion of its MVISION Extended Detection and Response solution by correlating the extensive telemetry of McAfee's endpoint security solution, Secure Access Service Edge solution, and threat intelligence solution powered by MVISION Insights. These integrations protect organizations against the most advanced threats while simplifying security operations with unified control and visibility from device to cloud.