Overline Announce Major New Sponsorship Deal with Brighton & Hove Albion FC

Overline are pleased to announce a new milestone in their long established relationship with Brighton and Hove Albion FC with their brand new sponsorship of one of the American Express Community Stadium’s biggest corporate lounges. The newly renovated Overline Lounge, formerly known as the Profile Lounge, will entertain members of the club’s premium 1901 Club on match days as well as being used for all manner of conferencing events, seminars, meetings and banquets throughout the year.

Already the club’s official telecoms provider, Overline are also heavily involved in Albion’s many charitable activities through their award winning Albion in the Community scheme and this latest sponsorship deal can only cement the strong relationship between Sussex’s premier football club and the Worthing based network telecommunication solutions provider. Overline Sales Director Jason Young announced “We have always been dedicated to the club and this sponsorship has enhanced our relationship. It seemed a natural progression after becoming the stadium telecoms provider. We work hard to support local charities and businesses in our community and we are delighted to be able to increase our support of Sussex sports through this sponsorship deal.”

Brighton’s American Express Community Stadium is about to host its third season of football alongside non match day events, exhibitions and conferences and this attractive lounge is an integral part of the huge West Stand, which also houses the dressing rooms, medical facilities, press area and the largest seating area in the ground. A truly stunning piece of modern architecture the stadium has won numerous awards for its design and excellent facilities and Overline are proud to be associated with both the stadium and the football club.

The Overline lounge was officially unveiled in a glitzy launch event on 18th July which featured several former Albion players including long time club servant Kerry Mayo, who now works for Overline. The event was also attended by Brighton and Hove Albion’s popular Chief Executive Martin Perry, a man instrumental in seeing through the vision for the Community Stadium project, as well as numerous local business owners and other club delegates.

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Scary flaw makes your USB ports a major security risk

It’s the second Tuesday in March, which means that it’s also the third Patch Tuesday of 2013. Microsoft released seven new security bulletins today, with four rated as "critical," but security experts are particularly concerned about a flaw rated as merely "important" that exposes your Windows PCs to major risk. Wolfgang Kandek, CTO of Qualys, notes in a blog post that the number of security bulletins is about par for the course for Microsoft. He adds, “In technical terms though we are seeing some interesting vulnerabilities that definitely rate higher-than-average.”

For starters, there is a cumulative security update for Internet Explorer (MS13-021). It addresses nine separate vulnerabilities, one of which has had exploit code circulating in the wild for the past month. Kandek urges IT admins to apply this update as soon as possible. “Every supported version of Internet Explorer (6 through 10) is affected, thus implicitly making all supported Windows platforms (including Windows RT) a target for attackers,” points out BeyondTrust CTO Marc Maiffret.

According to Paul Henry, security and forensic analyst at Lumension, the second priority should be MS13-022—a "critical" security bulletin that deals with a remote code execution vulnerability in Silverlight 5. Simply browsing to a website with malicious content with a vulnerable version of Silverlight is all it takes to become a victim of this attack.

Possibly the most interesting of the seven security bulletins, though, is MS13-027. Microsoft only rates it as "important" because the attack requires physical access to the vulnerable machine. Andrew Storms, director of security operations for nCircle (currently in the process of being acquired by Tripwire), explains that this flaw allows anyone with a USB thumb drive loaded with the attack code to bypass security controls and access a vulnerable system even if AutoRun is disabled, and the screen is locked.

Storms cautions, “Just imagine what a properly motivated janitorial staff could do with this vulnerability in just one evening. This vulnerability also seriously impacts security on all those public kiosks and co-location centers that don't have locked cabinets. The potential for harm with this vulnerability can’t be overstated.” Security experts agree that MS13-021, MS13-022, and MS13-027 pose a very serious threat and should be addressed immediately. As with any Patch Tuesday, you should review all of the security bulletins to determine the potential impact to your systems, and prioritize the patches accordingly.

While you’re at it, Adobe has released a new version of their Flash player, which addresses four critical vulnerabilities. Make sure you take a look at that and update Flash player as soon as possible as well.

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