Threat Level

McAfee is a complex and volatile person. I can say that in my two visits to Belize, and in dozens of phone conversations, McAfee was reasonable and lucid. But on a number of occasions, he snapped.

Patrick Leahy, the Vermont chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and legislative aides said Tuesday that the Democrat was not entirely watering down proposed legislation that would require authorities to obtain a probable-cause warrant to get access to all e-mail …

A hacker charged with federal crimes for obtaining the personal data of more than 100,000 iPad owners from AT&T’s website was found guilty on Tuesday.

Eighteen months before Megaupload’s operators were indicted in the United States, the company complied with a secret U.S. search warrant targeting five of its users who were running their own file-sharing service using Megaupload’s infrastructure, according to interviews and newly …

Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-California) has taken to the social-news site Reddit to crowdsource legislation that would make it more difficult for U.S. authorities to seize domains facilitating copyright infringement.

On November 12, Belizean police announced that they were seeking antivirus pioneer John McAfee for questioning in relation to the murder of his neighbor. Six months prior, WIRED’s Joshua Davis began an in-depth investigation into McAfee’s life. Our first WIRED …

File photo: Brian Finke/ Wired As fugitive antivirus pioneer John McAfee finished his fifth day in hiding in Belize on Thursday, he responded to a statement from that county’s prime minister questioning his mental stability. “I have no idea where …

There’s been much debate about whether the Federal Bureau of Investigation had court approval to review the e-mails of then-CIA Director David Petraeus and Paula Broadwell, his mistress and biographer. The investigation into the affair, which led to the director’s …

Rapiscan, one of two companies that supply controversial passenger screening machines to U.S. airports, is under suspicion for possibly manipulating tests on privacy software designed to prevent the machines from producing graphic body images.

A Colorado man charged with threatening to kill President Barack Obama said he wanted to assassinate the chief executive so he could go down in “infamy,” according to court records.

John McAfee is still in hiding, but he isn’t idle. The American antivirus pioneer sent me the following essay last night in which he offers his perspective on Belize’s history and politics, and his conflicts with the government — conflicts …

It doesn’t sound like much of a disguise, but John McAfee is doing his best to change his appearance as he continues to evade the police in Belize. In a case that seems to get more bizarre by the day, …

The United States again led the pack globally when it came to seeking user data from Google, with law enforcement agencies nationwide demanding the search giant to provide data 7,969 times for the first six months of the year, Google …

Photo: Brian Finke Antivirus pioneer John McAfee is still on the run, hiding in the bottoms of boats and cars, sleeping on a mattress infested with lice, and finally taking refuge in homes at undisclosed locations in Belize. “Obviously, given …

John McAfee, 67, is the prime suspect in a murder discovered Sunday morning in Belize. Convinced that he’ll be killed if he’s taken into custody for questioning, the millionaire antivirus pioneer has gone into hiding somewhere in the Central American …

Declaring it a “massive fraud” and a “farce,” Facebook is demanding a federal judge dismiss a lawsuit that claims a New York man owns half of the social-networking service.

In the irony of ironies, the distinguished career of CIA Director and former CENTCOM commander David Petraeus appears to have come unhinged after authorities traced the location of the sender of threatening e-mails that were written from an anonymous Gmail …

An Ohio lawyer who serves as an expert witness in child pornography cases is on the hook for $300,000 in civil damages for Photoshopping courtroom exhibits of children having sex, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. Attorney Dean Boland purchased …

The 15 year-old UG Nazi hacker known as Cosmo* or Cosmo the God was sentenced in juvenile court on Wednesday in Long Beach, California. According to Cosmo, he pled guilty to multiple felonies in exchange for a probation, encompassing all …

The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to review a major genetic-privacy case testing whether authorities may take DNA samples from anybody arrested for serious crimes.