As if it wasn’t bad enough that hackers are scamming QuickBooks users right in the heart of tax season, Intuit’s cure may be worse than the original scam: This week Intuit issued an alert to QuickBooks users warning of a “fake e-mail,” but then sent users to a site that itself is infected with malware.

If there ever was a slippery slope to worry about, here’s a beaut: DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency) is working on implantable bio sensors for the Armed Forces that will tell the Army, Navy and Marine commanders what their soldiers and sailors have been eating.

A lot of people seem to be under the impression that virtual servers and desktops are secure environments because virtualization inserts a layer of software between the underlying operating system and the applications running on top of them.

For those dissatisified customers who bought and then returned a Motorola Xoom tablet here's more bad news: It appears that Motorola neglected to wipe some hard drives clean before selling those returned Xooms as refurbished units.

Anonymous has struck again in one of its most outrageous and daring hacks ever -- the loose-knit group of worldwide hackers became participants in a cross-country, cross-Atlantic conference call between branches of the FBI and Scotland Yard.