Penn State researchers have developed anti-malware technology that can identify and contain worms in milliseconds rather than minutes. It focuses on analyzing the packet rate and frequency of connections, rather than signatures or patterns. ...

The muni-Wi-Fi craze took over another city as Houston tapped EarthLink last week to deploy a 600-square-mile network. It will be one of the largest in the United States. ...

Ten companies have formed the Open Solutions Alliance to reduce barriers to open source code adoption and guarantee the interoperability of various open source products. The group wants to make open source code easier to deploy. ...

Cisco Systems has revealed several vulnerabilities in the intrusion-prevention system of its Internetwork Operating System, used in its routers and switches. Fragmented IP packets may be used to evade signature inspection, according to a warning on the vendor's site. ...

MySpace is testing filtering technology that blocks unauthorized copyrighted material from being posted in videos on its site. The Audible Magic software tools scan videos for digital fingerprints and compares them with those in a database, blocking ones that match.