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Network World Daily News: PM, 09/19/07 NEWS PODCAST: NETWORK WORLD 360, 09/19/07
IBM, Google and Yahoo mount challenges to Microsoft Office; Daylight-saving time patching issues may to be revisited before Nov. 4; Cisco is acquiring wireless management vendor Cognio. Also: iPhone to go on sale in the UK, Intel reaffirms 32-nm chip plans, and Google loses more ground in China. (7:11) AMERITRADE LEAK LOOKS TO HAVE STARTED IN LATE '05, MUCH EARLIER THAN REPORTED
E-mails obtained by Network World show that Ameritrade received explicit and repeated warnings from an IT security expert starting Jan. 9, 2006, that its customer data had apparently been compromised, placing the start of the breach much earlier than previously reported and likely pushing it into 2005. Nevertheless, the company insisted for the next 20 months that a flood of stock-related spam being received by numerous clients was not indicative of a more serious problem. JOBS SAYS APPLE WILL FIGHT IPHONE UNLOCKING HACKS
Apple CEO Steve Jobs said Tuesday that it's his company's job to stymie hackers who try to unlock the iPhone -- the first time the company has officially said it would fight attempts to use the popular device on unauthorized networks. | Get Up to Speed on the Latest in WLANs Easily stay on top of the latest developments and issues in WLAN technology, standards, security, telephony, management and more with Network World's latest Executive Guide, "Keeping Up With the Wireless Whirlwind." Click here to download! | | FEAR OF INSIDER THREATS HITS HOME
The more money that companies spend on securing their IT operations from external attack, the more it seems they become aware that the potential threat ... INCREASING ADOPTION OF ITIL IS MAKING RESISTANCE FUTILE
David Farris, IT manager at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal Plant Health Inspection Service, has been working for five years to change some of the processes within his 300-employee organization. He hopes the changes will lead to ... PAYMENT CARD SECURITY COMPLIANCE A MOVING TARGET
With deadlines looming this year for the biggest credit-card merchants and service providers to prove compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), businesses are under the gun, sometimes spending hundreds of ... CAL RIPKIN'S 8 TIPS ON HOW TO BE AN IT 'IRON MAN'
Cal Ripken, Jr. delivers keynote address about incorporating perseverance, consistency and integrity in daily tasks at itSMFusion 2007 conference in Charlotte, N.C. APPLE MAY BE NEXT IN EU ANTITRUST SIGHTS
With Microsoft's antitrust appeal now decided, the next U.S. technology company to get a place on the European Union's regulatory hot seat may be Apple, an antitrust expert said Tuesday. EC's KROES SLAMS DOJ REACTION TO MICROSOFT RULING
European Union Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes has slammed comments from the U.S. Department of Justice about Monday's European court ruling on an antitrust judgment against Microsoft. OBSOLETE WEP WI-FI GETS NEW SECURITY SHIELD
Wi-Fi security vendors are releasing new products to protect customers against weaknesses in the WEP encryption scheme, even though it has been obsolete for years. | 
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