How many times have you wished that you had remote access to your computer, say remote access to your PC or Mac desktop, over the Internet, while you were away? Well, with this free remote access software and remote access service, now you can wish no more! Instead you can access your PC or Mac – in fact you can access as many computers as you want – across the Internet, all for free!

Talk about the latest detailed news on botnets! The ultimate of an inside look at botnets – it is the real, first-hand account of what happened this week when a zombie botnet woke up, based on some unseen signal triggered or programmed by the botnet owner, and took over hundreds of customer computers at a large US broadband ISP.

Microsoft this week issued seven “critical” Microsoft Windows updates and patches, including an Internet Explorer update, and they want to make sure that you update your Windows! Because each of the seven updates and patches are rated as “critical”, it really is advised that if you are running a computer with Windows, you pay immediate attention to these.

Email was the technology of choice chosen by the Virginia Tech administration to alert students to the gunman, still on the loose, during yesterday’s bloodbath at Virginia Tech. Here is the text of that email. Do you think this was the right way to warn students? What about students who didn’t check their email? Let us know what you think.

Recently I started getting invitations to join Flixster from complete strangers. Obviously, this was spam, but why were these complete strangers sending it to me? And why were they always from AOL and Hotmail? Now people are asking – is Flixstr accessing your AOL and Hotmail contacts list and spamming them in your name?

Want to control your car over the Internet? It’s possible now, thanks to the Internet-controlled car control system called the “Keplar Security System” just introduced by Inilex! Lock and unlock your car doors, start your car up (great for those cold winter mornings!), disable the engine, and even track your car, all over the Internet!

Quite a few people have by now read about AOL’s new Skyhook “Near Me” buddys plug-in. That’s the plugin for the service which lets you know if any of your buddies are geographically near to you, and puts them in a “Near Me” buddies group. But what far fewer people realize is exactly how it works. How does it know when you are near one of your buddies? The answer may surprise – and concern – you.

Does your computer suffer from embarassing data seepage? Does data seep from your wifi-enabled laptop, telling the world a bit more than you’d intended? The folks at Errata Security say “yes”, and are offering the code for their Ferret program for free. Ferret tells you just exactly what data is seeping from your computer.

Network neutrality, laws requiring dating sites to perform background checks and ISPs to rat out their users, laws banning anonymous posting, and cyber bullying legislation. Is it all part of a move towards a nanny Internet?

The Superbowl Trojan, as some are calling it, has been implanted on dozens of Super Bowl related websites, and is installing itself on any Windows computer that happens to visit any of the Super Bowl sites without adequate protection. The Super Bowl Trojan allows the hacker to take full control over any of these infected Windows PCs by connecting the machine to dv521.com, downloading the W1C.exe file, and installing the Wow-PK Trojan.

Consumer Reports has released their recommendations for the best anti spam software, the best anti spyware remover, and the best anti virus software.

Microsoft has issued alerts and updates this week for both Windows Media Player and Outlook Express, explaining that both are open to serious attack, which could render a user’s computer under the control from someone out on the Internet. The Outlook Express update affects Microsoft Outlook Express 5.5 and 6, and the Windows Media Player issue affects both Windows Media Format Series Runtime, and Windows Media Player 6.4 (and even affects people running later versions of Windows Media Player such as Windows Media Player 11).

Microsoft has advised that they are working on investigating a vulnerability in Word for Windows and Mac which allows attackers to gain access to a user’s home computer. All of the following version of Word are at risk: Microsoft Word 2000, Microsoft Word 2002, Microsoft Office Word 2003, Microsoft Word Viewer 2003, Microsoft Word 2004 for Mac, and Microsoft Word 2004 v. X for Mac, as well as Microsoft Works 2004, 2005, and 2006.

The 2B1 “one laptop per child” initiative, also known as the $100 laptop project, is looking for experienced hackers to try to hack the $100 2B1 laptop, so that they can trouble shoot its security issues. But what I want to know is, how many of those laptops will stay with the children, and how many will get sold by their families for food?

Remote XT is a new service which causes a stolen cell phone to emit a loud scream noise, and otherwise completely disables the cell phone. It also puts a text message on the screen which says “this phone is stolen”. The only way to stop the screaming noise is to remove the battery, at which point, of course, the stolen phone is completely useless.