Just when you thought the strange story of John McAfee was over….

The former island home of anti-virus software pioneer John McAfee burned down Thursday afternoon under circumstance he told FoxNews.com were “suspicious.”

It’s an odd choice of words from a man whom the Belize police found suspicious, following the November 2012 murder of American expatriate Gregory Faull, a well-liked builder from Florida who was shot at his home in San Pedro Town on the island of Ambergris Caye.

That incident led McAfee on a bizarre “Catch Me If You Can” flight from the police that took him into Guatemala and eventually back to the U.S. and Portland, Ore., where he now resides, hard at work on several books and movies about his life. McAfee chronicled his own exploits by blog and phone, turning the crime into farce.

The murder remains unsolved.

"I am sure that the public has had various opinions of my trials and tribulations over the months,” McAfee told FoxNews.com. “But I am hoping that this will bring to light that my concerns were based in reality."

“I believe that there are a select few with great power in Belize that will go to great lengths to harm me,” McAfee said. “This fire was not just a strange coincidence."

According to a news report on 7newsbelize.com, the two main structures in McAfee’s compound were destroyed by the fire, which started at 1:00 p.m. on May 16 when a bush fire enveloped the compound.

Property Manager Noel Codd estimates the value of the buildings at $250,000 each, 7newsbelize.com said.

McAfee, whose very name is synonymous with security, has repeatedly defended his antics over the past six months, most recently in a recent interview last week with USA Today.

"I am not a mad man," he said. "I am eccentric, gracious, attentive, kind, humorous. We humans are funny creatures."

McAfee remains a person of interest in the Faull investigation, Raphael Martinez, a spokesman for the Belize police, told the paper.

"We only want to question him, should he return to Belize," Martinez said. "Nothing has changed since he left the country last year.


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hacker10 wrote:After the recent arrest of CIA agent Ryan Fogle by the Russian counter intelligence agency Federal Security Service one of items they found in his possession and leaked to the press was a letter advising his Russian informer how to conduct secure email communications, this post will scrutinize these instructions to learn why the CIA adopted those particular security measures.

CIA Tip 1: “To get back to us please use an Internet cafe that has Wi-fi”

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BBC News wrote:British hackers who were behind a series of high profile cyber-attacks in 2011 have been sentenced.

The four men, Ryan Cleary, Jake Davis, Mustafa al-Bassam and Ryan Ackroyd, were part of the Lulzsec hacking group.

Cleary was jailed for 32 months, Davis for two years and Ackroyd for 30 months. Al Bassam was given a 20-month suspended sentence.

Targets included Sony Pictures, games maker EA, News International and the UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency.

The actions of the group were "cowardly and vindictive", said Andrew Hadik, a lawyer for the Crown Prosecution Service.

"The harm they caused was foreseeable, extensive and intended," he said. "Indeed, they boasted of how clever they were with a complete disregard for the impact their actions had on real people's lives.

"This case should serve as a warning to other cybercriminals that they are not invincible," he said.

Each man filled a different role during their cyber-attack spree. Ackroyd was the ring leader of the small group choosing targets and directing the efforts of the others. Davis acted as its press secretary, Cleary provided the software to carry out attacks and al-Bassam posted stolen data online.

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Yesterday Microsoft released new security patches for Internet Explorer, trying to patch vulnerabilities that would expose users’ data in case of successful attacks.

Deploying these patches is pretty important even if you’re using Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome, Marc Maiffret, chief technology officer for BeyondTrust, told V3, as some of the installed apps might still rely on Internet Explorer as the default browser.

“We have a lot of customers that do run Chrome. The thing you want to make sure of is that you don't just have Chrome installed alongside but make sure it is the default browser, and not just the browser on the desktop,” he said.

All patches are delivered via Windows Update, so make sure you allow the operating system to install them as soon as the downloading process is over.
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Three of al Qaeda’s major websites for recruiting terrorists and communicating propaganda were shut down recently in an apparent case of counterterrorism hacking or possibly as a result of internal disputes among terrorists.

U.S. officials familiar with intelligence reports said the websites of Ansar al-Mujahidin, Shumukh al-Islam and Al Fida — all accredited as official outlets of the terrorist group once led by Osama bin Laden — were knocked off the Internet by cyberattacks in early May.

Two of the sites — Ansar al-Mujahidin (as-ansar.com) and Shumukh al-Islam (shamikh1.info) — came back up Monday and Tuesday. The site Al Fida remains down.

Although the origin of the attack is not known, some online jihadists claimed that the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas was behind the cyberattack.

Counterterrorism Internet monitors told Inside the Ring that a posting on Facebook by a member of a hacker group Qassam HackeRs, which supports Hamas, claimed credit for the cyberattacks.

In an online posting that could not be verified, one of the Hamas hackers claimed that service to Ansar al-Mujahidin would continue to be disrupted until al Qaeda stops labeling members of Hamas‘ military wing, the Izz-al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, “infidels.”

All three websites are closely monitored by U.S. intelligence agencies and are considered key sources of information about the group.

The disruptions are prompting many jihadists to shift from Web forums to Twitter for communications and propaganda messaging.

Speculation that the cyberattacks were part of an intergroup rivalry is based on a dispute among terrorists over the announcement in April that al Qaeda in Iraq had merged with the pro-al Qaeda Syrian rebel group Al Nusrah Front. The merger prompted accusations that the Iraqi group had been infiltrated by hostile intelligence services.


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Internet Explorer 10 offers better protection against malware hosted on websites than Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Opera, according to a new browser security study.

At 99.96 percent, IE10's malware block rate outperformed Chrome's (versions 25 and 26) block rate of 83.16 percent, according to a study by analyst firm NSS Labs.

The difference between the two browsers however was minor compared to their lead on rivals: Safari 5 blocked 10.15 percent of malware, Firefox 19 blocked 9.92 percent and Opera 12 only blocked 1.87 percent in the study said.

The company tested each browser's ability to block malware from a sample of 754 URLs that were found to be "active and malicious". The company said it removed adware and false positives and tested the URLs against each browser every six hours between 13 March and 9 April this year.

According to NSS, Chrome and IE10 both offered superior defences because of the additional file blockers Microsoft and Google employed in their respective browsers.
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