Bromium Raises $40M For Security Technology That Traps Malware And Limits Attacks

Bromium has raised $40 million for its micro virtual machine (micro-vm) technology that traps malware and analyzes it for IT administrators to examine once an attack takes place. The oversubscribed Series C funding round was led by new investor Meritech Capital Partners, with participation from existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, Ignition Partners, Highland Capital Partners, and Intel Capital. The company has now raised $75.7 million since founded in 2010.

The company’s technology bypasses traditional means of protection such as signature-based systems that have proven ineffective against malware and other types of attacks. Bromium takes a different approach capturing every web page, email message or instant message and storing them each in their own virtual machine. A customer may have hundreds of virtual machines running on their computer or Android device. If someone clicks a bad link, the micro-vm will keep it until the IT administrator views and disposes of it. The user is never bothered — the whole process is invisible to them. The protection is all done in the background.

The Bromium technology gets baked deep into the device hardware. it support Intel-based hardware, Windows 7, 32-bit or 64-bit. It also supports Apple OSX. It protects against web, email (Outlook, Web-Mail and Lotus Notes), USB, instant messaging and third party or custom messaging apps.

The security does not yet work with Apple iOS devices. Apple is notorious for controlling its software stack. CEO Gaurav Banga said in an interview today that they have to work in the “right legal framework with the company.” He would not further comment.

Bromium’s security technology is not infallible by any means. It can’t be as no security system is perfect, writes Simon Wardley in a post last May. Wardley is a researcher with the Leading Edge Forum in the United Kingdom:

What Bromium has neatly done is not try to solve the impossible (preventing you from being attacked) but instead limited any damage to as small and as temporary a space as possible. Hence whilst Bromium does not prevent any zero day exploits being run, it reduces the impact of them to practically negligible. The fear is gone. Just because one email has been compromised, doesn’t impact all the other emails or the other applications and environments on my machine. It’s all isolated and to get rid of the problem I just close that email.

The security industry is going through rapid disruption. The question for Bromium is can it be the next end-to-end security play? it’s possible but it still needs to offer universal protection. If it can fill that big iOS hole then it has a decent chance of becoming a core technology for the Fortune 500 CIO.

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Hollywood Film Awards: A Parade of Stars Vying for Oscar (Analysis)

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Sandra Bullock accepting the Hollywood Actress Award at the 2013 Hollywood Film Awards.

The 17th Hollywood Film Awards, the first awards show of the 2013 film awards season, took place on Monday night at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles. (Full disclosure: Dick Clark Productions, which shares the same parent company as THR, has an undisclosed investment in the event.)

The recipients of the Hollywood Film Awards are determined by founder and executive director Carlos de Abreu and an advisory committee. Thanks to the disclosure of this year's recipients in the weeks leading up to the gala ceremony, every big-name honoree showed up -- among them Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock, Jake Gyllenhaal, Julia Roberts and Harrison Ford -- and many came with famous friends -- such as Robert Downey Jr., Jane Fonda and Sean Penn -- to present them with their awards. And some arguably advanced their case for even bigger awards to come by making the most of their moment on the red carpet and at the podium in front of a huge industry crowd.

Here is a recap of some of the night's most memorable moments.

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• The first award of the night, the Hollywood Breakout Director Award, was presented to 12 Years a Slave helmer Steve McQueen -- by none other than rapper Kanye West, who said that he flew in for the event from San Francisco on his girlfriend Kim Kardashian's 33rd birthday because he felt it was so important to honor McQueen's achievement. "I've always admired Steve's work," West said, noting that he has attended exhibits of his video art and enjoyed his past films (Hunger and Shame), but was particularly impressed by 12 Years: "It was extremely moving."   (According to reports, West immediately flew back to San Francisco and made up his brief absence to Kardashian by proposing to her.) McQueen, for his part, chuckled, "I've arrived!" before adding, more seriously, that he made 12 Years with the goal of helping to reach a "reconciliation with the past in order get to a brighter future."


• Hollywood Actor Award recipient McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club), who received his statuette from costar Jennifer Garner, had the audience wrapped around his fingers with a folksy acceptance speech. He acknowledged the many other people in the room with whom he has worked over the past 20 years; emphasized how his decision to "recalibrate" his career and recommit to acting a few years ago -- which led to his appearances over the past two years in the films Magic Mike, Killer Joe, Mud, the forthcoming The Wolf of Wall Street and Dallas Buyers Club -- has been such a personally (if not financially) rewarding experience for him; and teased his film's plot and release date in an organic way. In short, he nailed his talking points, won over the room and looked like a plausible winner up on the stage.


• Coldplay's Chris Martin, en route to accepting the Hollywood Song Award from singer Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds on behalf of his band for their song "Atlas" on The Hunger Games: Catching Fire's soundtrack, joked that the film is based on a true story before giving a solo performance of the song -- the first he has ever done publicly -- to a considerable ovation.


• August: Osage County's Roberts took the stage barefoot, after a playful introduction by friend Penn and a clip of a raucous scene from the film, to accept the Hollywood Supporting Actress Award and joked, "Well, Jesus, how the fuck do I say anything after that?" She then admitted that she had initially been "scared" to take on the part -- "because I'm that paradox of a person who wants to be Lucille Ball but also wants to be invisible" -- but was grateful that she did because it offered her the chance to realize her "personal dream" of working with Meryl Streep. Streep was not present at the ceremony, but most of the rest of the film's cast were on hand to collect the Hollywood Ensemble Award later in the show from Roberts' Pretty Woman director Garry Marshall, who remarked, "I'm not sure if anyone has ever seen such an all-star cast." (The film's top supporting actor and supporting actress Oscar hopefuls Chris Cooper and Margo Martindale, respectively, spoke on behalf of the others.)


• Hollywood Breakout Performance Award winner Jared Leto, who dropped 40 pounds for the part of a transsexual in Dallas Buyers Club for which he was being honored, was back in fighting shape to collect his award from pal Downey, who complimented him for bringing to his performance "humanity and will." Leto, noting that he's been acting for years, said he was very grateful for the honor because "I've actually never received an award for anything I've ever done onscreen," and added, "To get a Breakout Award at the ripe young age of 41 is pretty incredible."


• 12 Years a Slave newcomer/scene-stealer Lupita Nyong'o received a great build-up from fellow actress Angela Bassett -- who called Nyong'o's portrayal of a particularly put-upon slave "a breakthrough performance that you will not soon forget" -- before taking the stage, in a bright yellow dress, to collect the New Hollywood Award. She then had the audience enraptured as she tearfully thanked her mother, her collaborators on the film and the director: "Steve, I will never forget this opportunity you gave to me. … I am so proud to be a part of 12 Years a Slave." It was one of the best-received speeches of the night and only further solidified her standing as a top contender for the best supporting actress Oscar.


• Oscar winner Octavia Spencer sang the praises of Hollywood Actress Award recipient Sandra Bullock (Gravity), who befriended her on the set of the 1996 film A Time to Kill, in which Bullock starred with McConaughey and on which Spencer and Tate Taylor, the man who would later director Spencer to an Oscar win for The Help, were working as production assistants. Bullock then took the stage, wiped away a tear and then brought the house down with her acceptance speech. Improvising off of a remark that McConaughey had made in his own speech about his wife's advice that he "sac up" and do his best at things, Bullock thanked the Hollywood community for all of its support over the years. "It's allowed me to grab my sac, and pull my sac up high and walk forward with that sac." She expressed gratitude for continued great opportunities, noting, "The Hollywood I know has allowed me to keep trying and not send me out to pasture. I don't want to go to pasture -- it's cold, and I'm allergic to grass and the cows are mean!"


• Fonda and Forest Whitaker, two of the stars of Lee Daniels' The Butler, were introduced to hearty applause and then presented Lee Daniels with the Hollywood Director Award. Daniels noted the irony of his award featuring the word Hollywood in its title because his film was made without the interest or support of virtually any Hollywood studio, noting that it was the late Laura Ziskin who is most responsible for making it happen: "On her deathbed we were rewriting the script. Literally." He also thanked his mother, whom he said he used to tease when he was a kid for having false teeth. One day, on an election day when he was in his 20s, she asked him if he had voted, and when he said that he had not because he had to study for exams she responded with outrage: "Boy, I got my teeth knocked out so you could vote." He said, "This movie is dedicated to her."


• 42 writer-director Brian Helgeland presented the Hollywood Career Award -- the last award of the night -- to that film's supporting actor Oscar hopeful Ford, who is unrecognizable as the late Dodgers owner Branch Rickey in the film. Ford took the stage to the night's sole standing ovation from the audience, which included Dodgers legend Don Newcombe and present-day star Yasiel Puig. Ford, the star of many of the most critically and commercially successful films of the last 40 years, spoke in a soft voice as he thanked Hollywood and the many people who have supported him over the years for giving him "a useful purpose to make of my confusion, my interest, my wonder, and my passion." He said, "It's given me opportunities I never would have imagined for myself," before emphasizing, "There's a lot that I still want to do."


• Viola Davis presented her Prisoners co-star Jake Gyllenhaal with the Hollywood Supporting Actor Award for his portrayal of the lead detective in a mysterious kidnapping case in the hit film. Gyllenhaal remarked, "I wanted to do the movie because it's so balls to the wall … it's not a storybook version."


• Jack Black presented the Hollywood Screenwriter Award to his School of Rock and Bernie collaborator Richard Linklater and Linklater's Before Midnight co-writers and stars Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke. After noting that Midnight -- the third installment in the Before series, after Before Sunrise and Before Sunset -- is the best-reviewed film of the year, so far, Black cracked, "I'm not a f---ing award-winning writer, I'm just a dude who wants to be in the next installment, Before the Eclipse." As the honorees stumbled over each other's words at the podium, Linklater joked that this is why "People think that the movies are very improvised. They're actually entirely scripted." Hawke then got big laughs by joking that the film's success was owed less to the script than the actors, who he wished to thank.


• The Book Thief's supporting actor Geoffrey Rush presented the Hollywood Spotlight Award, which recognizes up-and-coming talent, to three people: Fruitvale Station's Michael B. Jordan, who noted of his film, "It's so timely right now"; Lee Daniels' The Butler's Daniel Oyelowo, who, in a Nigerian accent, imitated his father's long-ago advice to him that his decision to pursue acting was "a terrible, catastrophic idea," and then thanked Daniels, who "took me and believed in me and put me in two films back-to-back [The Paperboy and The Butler] in which I became a better actor and a better man"; and Rush's 13-year-old Book Thief costar Sophie Nelisse, who said, "I think it's so cool to get an award on the same stage as so many great artists" and said, "This is the kindest welcome I could ever imagine from Hollywood -- I'm really touched to be here."


• Captain Phillips supporting actor Oscar hopeful Barkhad Abdi presented the Hollywood Producer Award to Michael De Luca, who co-produced that film and many others including The Social Network and Moneyball. The Somali-born actor, who was a complete unknown prior to the release of the hit film, called De Luca, "Someone who truly helped change my life." De Luca, in turn, acknowledged his producing partners Scott Rudin and Dana Brunetti and heaped praise on the film's director, Paul Greengrass: "I am standing here because of all the work he did."


• Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner, two of the stars of the forthcoming American Hustle, presented the film's costume designer Michael Wilkinson and production designer Judy Becker with the Hollywood Costume Design Award and Hollywood Production Design Award, respectively.


• Sean Hayes presented the Hollywood Animation Award to Monsters University director Dan Scanlon.


• Pacific Rim star Robert Kazinsky presented the Hollywood Visual Effects Award to the film's visual effects supervisor, John Knoll.


• Bruce Willis presented the Hollywood Legend Award to producer Jerry Weintraub, saying, "I love him to death." Weintraub, in turn, said, "I'm not gonna talk long 'cause I want a vodka."


• Olivia Munn presented the Hollywood Movie Award, which was determined by fan voting, to Star Trek Into Darkness.

THR also had exclusive access to the backstage green room, which was often overflowing -- literally -- with A-listers. Among the fun sights and sounds there:

• Abdi excitedly approached McConaughey and said, "Nice to meet you -- I watch your movies a lot!"


• When Hawke entered the room he marveled aloud, "You got McConaughey here! You got Jack Black here!"


• When Leto entered, Downey, before presenting him with his award, greeted him by patting his stomach and saying, "You are your actual size!"


• Downey, Leto and Renner were chatting when Roberts entered the room and came in for kisses with each one of them.


• After watching the clip of highlights from Nyong'o's performance on a closed-circuit monitor, Spencer clapped and said, "She's so great."


• After Nyong'o's tearful speech, the actress returned to the green room and was still emotional as she received hugs and congratulations from friends and well-wishers.


• Fonda watched intently as the highlight reel of Ford's career played and then cheered enthusiastically as he was introduced.

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Pictured below: Kanye West and Steve McQueen in the green room at the Beverly Hilton. Photo Credit: Scott Feinberg.

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Katy Perry Will Love You (Yes, You!) Unconditionally! Watch Her New Lyric Video HERE!

Wow. That lyric video was so powerful, it left us breathless.

There's no doubt that Katy Perry's new single Unconditionally was written with her beau John Mayer in mind.

But this song is definitely one written with every single person on this planet in mind.

So, whether you're struggling with self-esteem issues or any other type of problems, just know that there's someone in your life who loves YOU unconditionally.

Simply beautiful.

Ch-ch-check out the inspiring ballad (above)!!

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Thor takes a hit for womankind

In this film publicity image released by Paramount Pictures, Chris Hemsworth, portraying superhero Thor, and Natalie Portman, portraying jane Foster, are shown in a scene from the film, "Thor." Hitting Chris Hemsworth was “one small slap for womankind” says Natalie Portman. The actress, who reprises her role as Jane Foster in “Thor: The Dark World,” gives the superhero a swipe round the face when she reunites with him for the Marvel sequel. (AP Photo/Paramount Pictures-Marvel Studios, Zade Rosenthal)

LONDON (AP) — Natalie Portman says hitting Chris Hemsworth was "one small slap for womankind."

The actress, who reprises her role as Jane Foster in "Thor: The Dark World," gives the superhero a smack in the Marvel sequel.

"Thor: The Dark World" has its world premiere in London Tuesday and is out in U.S. cinemas Nov. 8.

In an interview on Saturday, Portman said that she channeled all her single girlfriends: "You hear all these stories about guys and it's just good to get a nice on-screen slap like 'you didn't call me back.'"

The intention may have been payback but, according to Hemsworth, the result was less so.

"It just got really funny and ridiculous you know. It's like in high school when you're not meant to laugh," he said.

And fun and laughs is what Portman wants audiences to have. Despite appearing in many more serious and highbrow roles, the Oscar winner will not have the Hollywood blockbuster devalued.

She says "escapism" is the main reason people go to the movies and there is no room for snobbery.

"All independent art films aren't good, all blockbusters aren't good, and all foreign films aren't good. There are a few of each that are really great, whether it is for pure entertainment, for something that is going to change your mind about how you see the world or taking you to a place that you haven't been before."

Talking about the "Thor" franchise, she added: "This kind of movie — this grand spectacle and good old fashioned entertainment where for two hours you are having a great time — is really, really valuable."

Next year Portman will be leaving Hollywood behind, as a home at least, when she relocates to Paris with her husband, French choreographer Benjamin Millepied, and their 2-year-old son, Aleph.

Millepied will take up the role of director of the Paris Opera Ballet and Portman can't wait to explore.

"It is such a fun thing that you can take an hour flight or train or something and end up in a completely different country," she said. "It is exciting."

And with work in mind, Portman admits she would be "thrilled" to work in Europe more and appealed to European directors: "Hire me. I need jobs!"

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Belarus Petition Opposes Airing of Eurovision 2014, Cites Transsexual Singer

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MOSCOW – Citizens of Belarus are collecting signatures against the airing of next year’s Eurovision Song Contest in the country, saying it “propagates a lifestyle that is unacceptable for Belarusian society.”

The signatories in the post-Soviet country, sandwiched between Poland and Russia, were enraged by the fact that Austria is to be represented in the contest by transsexual singer Concita Wurst. They are demanding from the country’s information ministry, to which the petition is directed, that the airing of the contest be either canceled or the performance of Wurst be censored out.

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“Thanks to European liberals, the popular international contest, which is to be watched by our children, has turned into a hotbed of sodomy,” reads the petition on the website Change.org.

The sentiment expressed in the petition is not incompatible with rhetoric of Belarusian top officials, including the country’s authoritarian leader, President Alexander Lukashenko. Earlier this year, Lukashenko was quoted as saying that it is “better to be a dictator than a gay.”

Given the political climate in the country and its conservative and reactionary ideology, a situation in which the information ministry accepts the petitioners’ demand is not unlikely. In that case, however, Belarus would face being expelled from the Eurovision song contest, which is very popular in the country.

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