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Uncertainty clouds debate on Russia’s suspected role in election hacks

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How do you prove Russia meddled with the presidential election?

That’s a question the U.S. government is facing, but may never fully answer, at least not publicly. 

Last week, the U.S. punished Russia, claiming the country’s cyberspies hacked Democratic groups and figures during the election season.

However, missing from last week’s announcement was any new evidence — or a smoking gun — proving the Kremlin’s involvement. This isn’t sitting well with everyone in the security industry, especially since identifying the culprit of any cyberattack is no easy matter.

“Maybe Russia did do it, but until we have sufficient evidence, it’s a mistake to move forward,” said Jeffrey Carr, a cybersecurity consultant.   

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Startup promises to secure data centers, clouds workload by workload

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Illumio, a well-funded startup with an impressive list of customers, is wheeling out a data-center/cloud security platform that imposes individual security policies on every workload.

The company has amassed $ 42.5 million through two funding rounds from Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, Formation 8, Data Collective as well as individual investors including Salesforce founder and CEO Marc Benioff and Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang.

It boasts Morgan Stanley, Plantronics, Creative Artists Agency, Yahoo and NTT I3 among its initial customers looking to better secure their networks.

+ Also on Network World: Startup Outlier grabs endpoint forensic data without agent software | Startup backs services with elasticity of AWS, Azure clouds to outlast DDoS attacks +

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Through Dark Clouds, a Ray of Light – Infosecurity Magazine

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Through Dark Clouds, a Ray of Light
Infosecurity Magazine
This may seem a shocking admission, but let's all be honest with ourselves: we would much rather deal with Anna Kournikova-related malware than Stuxnet. To be clear, that … let alone a decade ago. Flame (and, of course, Stuxnet) are excellent examples.

flame malware – read more

VMware and EMC promise app building platform for Amazon, other clouds

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Pivotal Senior VP Scott Yara discusses building apps across clouds.
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VMware and EMC recently spun out several cloud computing and big data product teams to form a new, jointly owned subsidiary called “Pivotal.” Today, Pivotal said it has begun operations and will deliver a set of platform-as-a-service (PaaS) cloud products called Pivotal One, making it easier to build enterprise applications on a variety of cloud services.

Pivotal One will be sold “as a unified platform in Q4 2013,” according to a Pivotal data sheet, but some of the products it includes are already available today. One of those is VMware’s Cloud Foundry PaaS software, which will soon be able to operate on both Amazon Web Services and VMware-based cloud networks.

“One of the things we’re going to deliver this quarter is a version of Cloud Foundry showing this cloud-independent model where, at cloudfoundry.com, we’ll be running on both an Amazon infrastructure as well as VMware’s cloud infrastructure at the same time,” Scott Yara, senior VP of Pivotal’s platform and products, said on stage at a company announcement. Pivotal CEO Paul Maritz (and former VMware boss) also stressed the importance of working across different clouds, calling them the “modern equivalent of hardware.”

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