We interrupt our regular programming for a special announcement. As you know, we’ve been analyzing the Lotusphere 2007 announcements in substantial depth, and we’ve got a lot more analysis to come. However, Daylight Savings Time has been moved forward three weeks, to March 11. As you might imagine, this has all sorts of implications. Howard Greenberg of The Learning Continuum Company, a longtime friend of the magazine, has been studying this issue in some depth. Read this article to learn what you can do to prepare.

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A variant of the Trojan horse attacks known as Storm Worm emerged Monday, targeting people who post blogs and notices to bulletin boards.

Storm Worm emerged in January and raged across the globe in the form of e-mails with attachments that, when opened, loaded malicious software onto victims’ PCs, commandeering the machines so they could be used for further attacks.

The new Storm Worm variant attacks the machines of unsuspecting users when they open an email attachment, click on a malicious e-mail link or visit a malicious site, said Dmitri Alperovitch, principal research scientist at Secure Computing.

iQuate announced the release of iQNetScan 6, the latest version of its clientless PC inventory and IT asset management suite.

Traditionally regarded as an IT compliance and risk management solution, the latest release of iQNetScan contains new functionality that extends the capabilities of traditional anti-virus management consoles. iQNetScan will now automatically scan all PCs connected to a company network to detect if anti-virus definitions are up-to-date, request the definition be updated if necessary, and generate exception alerts for IT personnel should updates fail.

Senior managers are pressing technology leaders to offer new services and grow revenue. What should CIOs do? Here are 10 cases where IT raised organizational effectiveness.

The Information Technology Association of America, an IT trade association, issued its 17th annual federal CIO survey this week, and IT security ranked No. 1 as the CIOs top achievement.

But federal information chiefs aren’t alone in making corporate defenses stronger. Many corporations have found ways to better protect their information assets. Here are just five examples.

GPXS, a software and services company delivering BlackBerry enterprise solutions and expertise, effectively and efficiently manages the large scale deployment of Research In Motion’s BlackBerry DST patch via its Condor Mobile Services Manager product. RIM is distributing the BlackBerry DST patch to prepare users for the moved-up 2007 Daylight Savings Time change in the United States. Condor MSM provides a set of tools that will substantially reduce the amount of effort and time to manage the "push" process and that will assure the completion of the deployment of the BlackBerry DST patch in enterprises with large numbers of BlackBerry handhelds.

Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie doesn’t necessarily think Google has all the answers, but he does credit the company for opening Microsoft’s eyes.

"Google’s success very clearly caused an inflection point within our industry and within Microsoft in terms of understanding advertising as an economic engine," Ozzie said Tuesday, speaking to analysts at a Goldman Sachs investor conference in Las Vegas. "It was a wake-up call within Microsoft."

VantagePoint is a Domino-based utility aimed at auditing and monitoring Domino server documents for field level changes. Any change to a field in a Domino server document will be recorded and an optional email can be sent to alert the appropriate staff to the change. Administrators will be able to "walk" through the entire history of changes to each field, as well as roll back fields to any previously recorded value with a simple mouse click.

With today’s emphasis on industry and regulatory compliance, tracking and maintaining a list of all field level changes to server documents comes with a high administrative overhead. VantagePoint eases this burden with fully automated real-time and/or scheduled audits.

Spytech Software announced the latest, and most advanced update of its NetVizor–an easy-to-use monitoring and administration software suite that allows network administrators to view what users are doing on their entire network, from one centralized location. Combining centralized, real-time remote monitoring with individual user monitoring and security auditing, NetVizor 5.0 is the most comprehensive network monitoring and administration solution available.

There are good sticky things, and then there are the stickies stuck onto PC monitors with passwords jotted down.

The 17,000 employees at the specialty chemicals company Rohm and Haas–a company whose IT department is a firm believer in off-the-shelf software–until recently were laboring under the task of maintaining between 12 and 15 separate user names and passwords to access systems needed to do their jobs. The help desk, for its part, were handling 14,000 password-related calls per year.

To fix the problem, Rohm and Haas turned to IBM’s Tivoli Access Manager for Enterprise Single Sign-on.