About 48,000 Digital Concepts Compact Travel Chargers are being recalled by Sakar International Inc. of Edison, N.J. The rechargeable battery chargers can fall apart, exposing consumers to the internal components which pose an electrocution or electric shock hazard says the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

Tens of millions of Americans will file their federal income tax returns online this year. If you're among them, the experts who put together Consumer Reports' Guide to online security have these suggestions:

Hewlett-Packard will pay a civil penalty of $425,000 for failing to report immediately to the Consumer Product Safety Commission that certain lithium-ion battery packs contained a defect and could overheat, posing a fire and burn hazard.

Best Buy has recalled about 31,000 Rocketfish mobile battery cases for the iPhone 3G and 3GS, and about 1,000 additional Rocketfish battery cases in Canada, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission reported today.

Better unplug your Pogoplug Video, if you have one. The video sharing device, from Cloud Engines in San Francisco, is being recalled because it's a hot computer peripheral. Literally.

A group of scientists at the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer, which last month classified low-level radiation from cell phones as "possibly carcinogenic to humans," provided more details yesterday about how they arrived at their conclusions in a report published online in The Lancet Oncology.

Citigroup announced yesterday that information from more than 360,000 of its U.S. credit card accounts was stolen in a cyber attack last month, rather than the 200,000 that were initially disclosed to the public last week.

Data breach? There might be some apps for that.

The World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer yesterday classified low-level radiation from cell phones “possibly carcinogenic to humans” based on limited evidence linking cell-phone use with an increased risk of glioma, a type of brain cancer. While that's certain to raise the level of discussion about the health effects of cell phones, government regulators remain reassuring about the potential risks.

Hewlett-Packard has recalled about 162,600 additional lithium-ion batteries because they can overheat and rupture, posing a fire and burn hazard. The rechargeable batteries are used in HP and Compaq notebook computers.

Research in Motion (RIM) has announced a recall of about 1,000 of its premier BlackBerry PlayBook tablet computer. According to a statement issued by the company, the problem lies with RIM's BlackBerry Tablet operating system, which may prevent the device from loading new software.

After the discovery of a hacker intrusion, Sony's PlayStation Network has been down for more than three weeks. The company hasn't been able to definitively state whether users' credit card information was compromised. But in a letter sent to game publishers, Sony writes that it's seen no proof that such data was hacked.

The Michaels craft-store chain reported that about 80 stores in 20 states have been hit by a card data stealing scheme that's much wider than previously reported. While the company didn’t give details on exactly how it happened, experts say it could be due to debit- and credit-card skimming, where thieves siphon off personal data from cards and then withdraw money from customer accounts.