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The Spanish National Police have, at the request of America, arrested UK citizen Joseph O'Connor in Estepona, Spain, in connection with the July 2020 takeover of more than 130 Twitter accounts. The US Department of Justice said that, in addition to the alleged Twitter account joyride, O'Connor, 22, has been charged in a federal district court in northern California with computer intrusions tied to the commandeering of TikTok and Snapchat user accounts.
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.
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
The systems of SEPE, the Spanish government agency for labor, were taken down following a ransomware attack that hit more than 700 agency offices across Spain. SEPE director Gerado Guitérrez confirmed that the agency's network systems were encrypted by Ryuk ransomware operators after the incident.
When Google Chrome 90 arrives in April, visitors to websites that depend on TLS server authentication certificates from AC Camerfirma SA, a digital certificate authority based in Madrid, Spain, will find that those sites no longer present the secure lock icon. Mozilla, maker of Chrome rival Firefox, has been trying to decide whether Camerfirma's history of questionable certificate management practices - documented in a lengthy list - warrants banishing the Spanish company's certificates from its Root Store - the set of certificates Firefox recognizes as trustworthy by default.
Chinese hackers have stolen information from Spanish laboratories working on a vaccine for Covid-19, El Pais newspaper reported Friday. Speaking to journalists on Thursday, Esteban who heads the CNI intelligence services, said there had been a "Qualitative and quantitative" increase in attacks during lockdown, with hackers targeting "Sensitive sectors such as healthcare and pharmaceuticals".
Video link request from September finally granted Julian Assange will be interviewed via video link by a judge investigating claims that a Spanish company orchestrated a spying operation against...
Everis, one of the largest IT consulting companies in Spain, suffered a targeted ransomware attack on Monday, forcing the company to shut down all its computer systems and operations until the...
Spain's National Court is investigating a Spanish private security firm on suspicion it spied on Julian Assange on behalf of the US while he was inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London, according...