McAfee

John McAfee dead: Antivirus tycoon killed himself in prison after court OK'd extradition, says lawyer

British-American infosec renegade faced trial in America for tax evasion

Security23 Jun 2021 | 171

Brit watchdog shows some teeth over McAfee antivirus auto-renewals

Refund rights for customers

Security25 May 2021 | 32

McAfee, the company, says Chinese attackers targeted Asian and US telcos

Fake Huawei and Flash sites helped steal info about 5G tech

Security18 Mar 2021 | 8

McAfee to offload enterprise business for $4bn, focus on consumer security

While its namesake founder is indicted for fraud and money laundering

Security08 Mar 2021 | 23

McAfee rattles tin for $600m+ in fresh IPO filing valuing firm at $3.6bn

That's if shares sell at the high end

Security14 Oct 2020 | 7

McAfee seeks $2bn return to stock market after Intel unpleasantness

Warns investors that big clouds could start to sell native security tools direct to customers and reduce the need for third-party vendors

Security29 Sep 2020 | 23

Your opinion does matter to this Jordanian telco... only it's experiencing some technical difficulties right now

Bork!Bork!Bork! It's the triple! Internet Explorer, McAfee and... is that Windows 8.1 flashing its privates?

Bootnotes06 Mar 2020 | 7

Why do cloud leaks keep happening? Because no one has a clue how their instances are configured

McAfee study finds poor setups, even worse visibility

Security24 Sep 2019 | 31

Dixons hits back at McAfee's £30m antivirus sueball: Your AV didn't work on Windows 10S

And that's why we flirted with your nemesis Symantec, Brit retailer claims

Security28 Aug 2019 | 99

Printer pwnage, phone poppage, and apparently US Homeland Security needs security help

Roundup Plus: The spambot that actually DOES record screens of pr0n users

Security12 Aug 2019 | 5

Dutch cops collar fella accused of crafting and flogging Office macro nasties to cyber-crooks

Accused bloke cuffed after plod swoop on home

OSes18 Jul 2019 | 10

McAfee sues ship-jumping sales staff over trade secret theft allegations

Complaint claims rival Tanium's hires took deal data with them

Security25 Jun 2019 | 18

McAfee – the completely sane guy, not the biz – told to fork out $25m over 'torture, murder' of his Belize neighbor

Good luck, says antivirus wildchild, I have no assets

Bootnotes20 Mar 2019 | 40

Don't rage against the machine – wage against the master, says McAfee amid AI havoc fear hype

RSA 'Technology doesn't comprehend morality: An algorithm can protect data from theft or hold it for ransom'

AI + ML05 Mar 2019 | 6

McAfee: Oops, our bad. Sharpshooter malware was the Norks' Lazarus Group the whole time

Access to C'n'C server data shows state hackers weren't smart enough for false flags

Security04 Mar 2019 | 9

It is with a heavy heart that we must inform you hackers are targeting 'nuclear, defense, energy, financial' biz

Sharpshooter takes aim at critical infrastructure

Security12 Dec 2018 | 24

John McAfee is 'liable' for 2012 death of Belize neighbour, rules court

Default judgement for one-time antivirus bad boy

Security15 Nov 2018 | 39

McAfee says cloud security not as bad as we feared… it's much worse

Quick takeaway: most everyone sucks at IaaS

SaaS30 Oct 2018 | 33

When is a patch not a patch? When it's for this McAfee password bug

Vulnerability still open to all despite multiple fixes

Security11 Sep 2018 | 11

Well, can't get hacked if your PC doesn't work... McAfee yanks BSoDing Endpoint Security patch

Don't install August update, world+dog warned

Security24 Aug 2018 | 29

Security MadLibs: Your IoT electrical outlet can now pwn your smart TV

McAfee finds new way to break thing that shouldn't be on your home network in the first place

Security21 Aug 2018 | 76

Medical device vuln allows hackers to falsify patients' vitals

McAfee: Patient monitoring systems open to hack attacks

Edge + IoT14 Aug 2018 | 14

Hardened Azure logins, softened containers, leaky encrypted images on Macs – and more

Roundup Plus: Crypto-cash and keeping up with McAfee

OSes23 Jun 2018 | 8

IBM’s McAfee-as-a-service cloudy antivirus wobbled for nearly a day

Updated Big Blue’s restored its backups and says A-V-as-a-service is serviceable again

Security20 Jun 2018 | 10

McAfee online scan used plain old HTTP to fetch screen elements

38 lines of code later, you're owned. Good thing the fix is in, eh?

Security01 Aug 2017 | 9

Ransomware scum straighten ties, invest in good customer service

Word of mouth matters when you're taking users' cash

Security28 Jul 2017 | 11

McAfee settles McAfee lawsuit over McAfee name

And Intel sighs with relief

On-Prem06 Jul 2017 | 19

Cisco and McAfee decide users just can't be trusted not to click on dodgy attachments

So they've welded Advanced Threat Defense to Email Security Appliances

Security27 Jun 2017 | 31

OLE-y hell. Bug in MSFT Word allows total PC p0wnage

FireEye, McAfee, disclose over the weekend. Will Microsoft squash it on Patch Tuesday?

Security09 Apr 2017 | 35

McAfee is McAfee again, promises security with kum ba yah

LOGO WATCH This time the plan is security outcomes through togetherness

Security05 Apr 2017 | 36

Judge allows plan for Intel to reanimate McAfee. The brand, we mean

Apparently survived YouTube shooting

On-Prem30 Jan 2017 | 17

P0wnographer finds remote code exec bug in McAfee enterprise

This one ticks all the boxes: Runs as root ✔ Claims security ✔ Unpopular product with few updates ✔

Security13 Dec 2016 | 11

McAfee's back! Intel flogs security software biz, pockets $3.1bn

Chipzilla wing loses $3.5bn in six years – almost as fast as John McAfee in a strip club

Channel07 Sep 2016 | 10

Kaspersky, McAfee, and AVG all vulnerable to major flaw

Researchers watch the watchmen

Channel10 Dec 2015 | 26

McAfee Security Manager lets anybody bypass managers' security

'Specially crafted username' opens the keys to the kingdom of FAIL

Security07 Dec 2015 | 16

Intel Security sunsets SaaS email security products

The artist formerly known as McAfee wants you in a new and more modern cloud

SaaS23 Oct 2015 | 3

As McAfee runs for US President – we ask a crucial question: Will Reg readers back him?

Poll Don't wait for 2016 – vote now!

Bootnotes10 Sep 2015 | 84

'Cops KNOW WHO I AM and I don't believe their hearts were truly in the shootout'

QuoTW Plus: 'Apple Music f**king sucks'

Bootnotes09 Aug 2015 | 12

John McAfee cuffed by Tennessee cops, faces drug-driving, gun rap

Pic Gaffe-ey McAfee in slap-happy mugshot

Channel05 Aug 2015 | 48

Yay for Tor! It's given us ransomware-as-a-service

A simple but TOXic attack emerges from the onion

Channel29 May 2015 | 22

Review: McAfee Endpoint Protection for SMB

Does it prevent oogly booglies from getting on my system? Yes? Good!

Security23 Mar 2015 | 39

Look out: That data protection watchdog can bite

Regulation set to get tougher

On-Prem26 Nov 2014 | 6

Who is out there waiting to spy on you or steal your data?

Know your enemy

On-Prem21 Nov 2014 | 7

Cyber security: Do the experts need letters after their name?

All roads lead to a job

On-Prem17 Nov 2014 | 15

Make sure big data doesn't land you in big trouble

Lock up your secrets

On-Prem14 Nov 2014 | 3

Someone has broken into your systems. Now what?

Never let a good crisis go to waste

On-Prem10 Nov 2014 | 17

Security products: Best of breed or create your own monster?

Beware the Frankenstack

On-Prem07 Nov 2014 | 4

Raj Samani: The Director’s Cut

Regcast after dark A security expert's tale

On-Prem04 Nov 2014 |

Got a botnet? Thinking of using it to mine Bitcoin? Don't bother

McAfee says crooks will be better off sticking to spam and DDoS

Security24 Jun 2014 | 15

Daddy, what will you do in the new security wars?

Depends which enemy are we talking about, son

Channel24 Jun 2014 | 31

BILLIONS of digital dollars go AWOL to cybercrooks, says study

Of course, the solution MUST be to buy the sponsor's brand of antivirus ... right?

Security11 Jun 2014 | 10

McAfee accused of McSlurping Open Source Vulnerability Database

Lawyers say security giant should have paid before it unleashed slurping scripts

Security08 May 2014 | 25

Intel ditches McAfee brand: 'THANK GOD' shouts McAfee the man

CES2014 'Terrible association with the worst software on the planet' finally comes to an end

Security07 Jan 2014 | 48

Old JBoss vuln in the wild, needs patching

Remote code execution, the usual thing

Security19 Nov 2013 | 2

Phil Collins' daughter 'will give you A VIRUS' – security bods

Watch where you put that pointer

Security18 Sep 2013 | 38

Seoul-blackening disk wipe badness linked to 4-year SPY CAMPAIGN

Can Norks afford malware writers?

Legal11 Jul 2013 | 8