Monthly Archives: April 2015

Avira

Avira Team Gears Up

The Avira Fitness Studio

Logo Avira GymA few months ago we decided to equip our offices in Tettnang with fitness facilities for employees who want to do some sports just before or after work hours. For those wishing to continue their sport routine during the weekend, the Studio’s doors are open 24/7. The Fitness Studio comes as a perfect service to offer our employees together with the in-house catering service and the (already famous) coffee place, our dear Chocavira.

We have acquired modern equipment and tried to organize the space by type of activities so that people can enjoy a professional workout environment. Personal trainers are also available at specific times, making sure that people are making the best out of their fitness sessions. Other logistics have also been taken care of: showers, personal lockers and towels being at our employees’ disposal.

On the Activities menu:

  • Traditional Workout
  • Yoga
  • Spinal + Stretch Workout
  • Pilates
  • Functional Circuit
  • Cycling

Besides being a great place to engage in physical activities, our two months old Fitness Studio has proven to be also a social catalyzer for our employees. It’s fun to see that colleagues of yours share your passion for cycling or yoga and join you for the classes that are being organized on a weekly basis.

In the past couple of months, not only have we come to realize that the Avira gym is an amazing boost for employees’ health and well-being, there are in fact a lot of benefits to be discovered once a company decides to build a workout space for the employees.

What’s the best thing that happened with the Avira Fitness Studio opening in our Tettnang HQ? We simply made our employees happy. How? By showing them their voice matters and we actually do our best to make their wishes come true and transform the work place into a friendly environment. Happy employees contribute to an overall happy atmosphere in the office so we can issue an official warning:

Watch out, viruses! We’ll be coming a lot stronger at you!

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Panda Security

How to manage your company’s computer security?

antivirus for business

It is possible that you have asked yourself this same question if you own a company or are the responsible of the IT department of one.

We have always stressed the importance of being able to manage the security of the endpoints in the network anywhere, anytime, regardless of the platform from which the process is running.

The usage of Cloud Computing in companies has experienced a significant increase in recent years due to, among other things, cost savings and flexibility to access our information when we need it.

To protect this new way of working we need a security solution that tailor to it. Where can you find it? Endpoint Protection Plus, our antivirus for business.

How to manage your company’s computer security?

  • Control management console.

Manage your antivirus and firewall protection, even upgrade to the latest product version from a single Web browser. Control your security centrally from a single console for your entire network, including remote offices and Mac and Linux computers.

  • Disinfects workstations and endpoints infected.

Resolve security issues launching Panda Cloud Cleaner Monitor to repair any workstations infected by advanced, non-conventional malware.

  • Real-time monitoring.

You will be able to know the status of your IT infrastructure in real time. Also generates and sends reports detailing the protection status, detections and inappropriate use of resources.

  • Profile-based protection.

Assign profile-based protection policies, ensuring the most appropriate policies are applied to each group of users.

  • Web monitoring and filtering.

With Endpoint Protection Plus you will be able to increase user productivity by preventing and/or monitoring access to content belonging to categories considered unproductive or dangerous during working hours.

  • No more saturated mailboxes.

Reduce the risk of attacks on your servers with the content filter feature. Improve the users’ protection by filtering unwanted and malicious messages with the anti-spam engines.

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Avast

Les Français se mettent délibérément en danger lors de leur connexion aux réseaux Wi-Fi non sécurisés

Selon une récente étude menée par Avast, 66 % des français préféreraient se connecter aux réseaux Wi-Fi non sécurisés et risqueraient donc se faire voler leurs données personnelles. 30 % des français se connectent une fois par mois aux réseaux Wi-Fi publics et 24 % plusieurs fois par semaine. La raison principale pour laquelle ils se connectent est l’économie de leur forfait Internet mobile (20 %) mais aussi et surtout pour des raisons pratiques (47 %). Ces habitudes de connexion présentent de nombreux risques comme le vol des données personnelles (photos, sms, e-mail etc.), la mise en danger de votre vie privée ainsi que la vulnérabilité de vos transactions financières. 10 % des personnes interrogées affirment d’ailleurs se connecter à leur compte bancaire lorsqu’elles sont connectées aux réseaux sans fil non sécurisés, 4 % font du shopping en ligne et 2 % effectuent d’autres types de transactions financières. Les risques associés à une connexion aux réseaux Wi-Fi publics sont bien réels. Il est donc important de prendre certaines mesures afin de protéger ses données. Les mobinautes doivent éviter de se connecter aux réseaux sans fils ne requérant pas de mot de passe ou d’enregistrement. Il est également nécessaire d’utiliser un VPN (Réseau Privé Virtuel) afin de protéger vos appareils mobiles. Le VPN Avast SecureLine chiffre toutes vos données (historiques de recherche, appels en ligne, mots de passe) et protège ainsi efficacement votre appareil mobile des hackeurs.

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Mandriva

[ MDVSA-2015:196 ] cups-filters

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 Mandriva Linux Security Advisory                         MDVSA-2015:196
 http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/
 _______________________________________________________________________

 Package : cups-filters
 Date    : April 7, 2015
 Affected: Business Server 2.0
 _______________________________________________________________________

 Problem Description:

 Updated cups-filters package fixes security vulnerability:
 
 cups-browsed in cups-filters before 1.0.66 contained a bug in the
 remove_bad_chars() function, where it failed to reliably filter
 out illegal characters if there were two or more subsequent illegal
 characters, allowing execution of arbitrary commands with the rights
 of the lp user, using forged print service announcements on DNS-SD
 servers (CVE-2015-2265).
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 References:

 http://cve.mit
Mandriva

[ MDVSA-2015:195 ] python-django

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 Mandriva Linux Security Advisory                         MDVSA-2015:195
 http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/
 _______________________________________________________________________

 Package : python-django
 Date    : April 7, 2015
 Affected: Business Server 1.0
 _______________________________________________________________________

 Problem Description:

 A vulnerability has been discovered and corrected in python-django:
 
 The utils.http.is_safe_url function in Django before 1.4.20, 1.5.x,
 1.6.x before 1.6.11, 1.7.x before 1.7.7, and 1.8.x before 1.8c1 does
 not properly validate URLs, which allows remote attackers to conduct
 cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a control character in a URL,
 as demonstrated by a x08javascript: URL (CVE-2015-2317).
 
 The updated packages provides a solution for this security issue.
 ____________________________________________________
Mandriva

[ MDVSA-2015:193 ] libtasn1

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 Mandriva Linux Security Advisory                         MDVSA-2015:193
 http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/
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 Package : libtasn1
 Date    : April 7, 2015
 Affected: Business Server 1.0, Business Server 2.0
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 Problem Description:

 Updated libtasn1 packages fix security vulnerability:
 
 The libtasn1 library before version 4.4 is vulnerable to a two-byte
 stack overflow in asn1_der_decoding (CVE-2015-2806).
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 References:

 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2806
 http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0128.html
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 Updated Packages:

 Mandriva Business Server 1/X86_64:
 6ee2