IBM tells employees to behave in Second Life; Networkiest moments on 'The Simpsons'

Daily News: PM This newsletter is sponsored by Juniper Networks Balancing network access and security The more users accessing the network, the more dangerous the network neighborhood becomes. Find out how to strike a balance between network access and security for internal and external users quickly. Click here to download this analyst whitepaper now. Network World Daily News: PM, 07/27/07 IBM tells employees to behave in Second Life IBM is issuing guidelines governing employee behavior in Second Life as the virtual online world increasingly becomes a platform for doing business. Expect others to follow suit. Networkiest moments on 'The Simpsons' In honor of the new Simpsons movie, a look back at the best bits from the network world of 'The Simpsons.' With Black Hat approaching, a rush to patch iPhone With security researchers set to reveal details of a critical security flaw in the iPhone at the Black Hat 2007 conference next week, Apple now has fewer than seven days to patch a critical vulnerability in the product. New Executive Guide Network World has recently published an executive guide entitled "Virtualization Meets Reality". Find out the 8 key challenges of virtualizing your data center. Download it now! P-to-P users expose U.S. government secrets Contractors and U.S. government employees are sharing hundreds of secret documents on peer-to-peer networks, in many cases overriding the default security settings on their P-to-P software to do so, according to a company that monitors the networks. Show your SysAdmins a little love today Annual appreciation day is now linked to yearly contest that calls out exemplary IT professionals and showers them with gifts. Making sense of AMD's processor road map Advanced Micro Devices Thursday gave journalists and analysts a peek at its road map of upcoming processors, including more details on the company's quad-core processors and plans for a family of server chips with 16 cores. Cisco to acquire equity stake in VMware Cisco plans to acquire a 1.6% equity stake in virtualization software player VMware, mirroring a step Intel took earlier this month. Storm worm gets smarter Newer variants of the widespread Storm worm have introduced a new technique for evading security experts -- detecting when they are running in a virtual environment and changing their behavior if they are. Riverbed software optimizes traffic from laptops to data centers Riverbed is announcing WAN acceleration software for personal computers so users can optimize WAN connections with an appliance at data centers without installing a device at every other location. SOX: Five years of headaches Five years after Sarbanes-Oxley was enacted to prevent Enron-like scandals, the law has forced large public companies to clean up their accounting. But it has been so costly that some foreign companies are dropping out of U.S. stock exchanges, and ...

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