Maximum PC: Let's now sugarcoat things, the McAfee brand isn't one that's well respected among enthusiasts, and it surely didn't help matters that its founder, John McAfee, had quite the adventure the past couple of years, one which started with him being wanted for questioning in a murder investigation in Belize to Mr. McAfee saying he played the "crazy card" in Guatemala to escape capture as part of a conspiracy by the Belize government. Suffice to say, we're not the least bit surprised Intel has decided to phase out the McAfee brand, we just wonder why it took so long.
The days of the humble password are clearly numbered, and John McAfee, that always colourful character from the security world, has his own invention which he believes will hammer the final nails into the coffin of the traditional user/password combination – the EveryKey.
Maximum PC: New types of ransomware increased 165 percent in the first quarter of 2015, according to Intel Security's McAfee Labs Threats Report for May 2015 (PDF). The rapid rise was driven in large part by the CTB-Locker ransomware family, which McAfee Labs says is difficult to detect, along with a new rasnomware family called Teslacrype and the emergence of new versions of Cryptowall, TorrentLocker, and BandarChor.
Forget typing in passwords, Intel wants you to use your body to log into email and online bank accounts.
I hope they succeeded. It annoys me a lot whenever I forget my passwords and have to reset them.
