SSCC 155 – cybercrime bust, cloud laws, phishing and malware back from extinction [PODCAST]

In this episode, Sophos experts John Shier and Paul Ducklin tackle the week’s interesting security stories. John and Duck get stuck into: a high-profile cybercrime arrest; how mainstream brands help phishers; and why macro malware is making a comeback.

DARPA dissects Twitter, Facebook, Reddit to extract propaganda how-to’s

The internet found out last week that Facebook’s been dissecting us. Now, it looks like DARPA’s been at it too, with research on users of Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Pinterest, Kickstarter and Digg.