The New York police arrested a man who stole somebody's laptop after the owner was able to track his whereabouts via remote. Police said the 34-year-old suspect was arrested after the owner of the laptop he stole used a remote access software to log on everyday to his missing laptop and monitor its usage.

Mathematicians at the University of California Los Angeles claim that they have found a 13-million-digit prime number long sought by computer users. The Los Angeles Times reported the discovery of the first verified Mersenne prime number with more than 10 million digits qualifies UCLA for a $100,000 prize from the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The discovery is the 46th known Mersenne prime number and the eighth Mersenne prime discovered at UCLA.

Sharing a similar name with 20,000 other names of Americans on the terrorist watch list is causing nightmares to the namesakes, including children, who have been detained and questioned. Federal agencies and airlines said they are fixing the problem of false positives through the Secure Flight program, but it has been delayed because of concerns that the federal government will gain access to passenger manifests ahead.

The NASA confirmed its laptops carried aboard the International Space Stations in July were hit by the Gammima. AG computer virus. The virus was first noticed in August 2007 when the laptops were still on Earth. The laptops were used by the astronauts to monitor their nutrition programs and send emails back to Earth. It got infected because the laptops apparently had no anti-virus software.

A Briton has informed authorities that a computer he bought through eBay for $142 contained data on several million credit card customers. The incident has sparked an investigation in the U. S. and the U. K. The buyer, 56-year-old IT manager Andrew Chapman of Oxford, England, contacted authorities when he found on the computer's hard drive the account numbers, passwords, cell phone numbers and signatures of credit card customers of the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), its subsidiary NatWest and American Express.