The man who wrote the original anti-virus program tells Paul Rodgers he wants to make data safer

Jabs for high-risk patients and NHS staff from next week

A pregnant teenage woman has died after contracting swine flu, it was confirmed today.

It's not just big business that runs into trouble with its advertising. Vegetarian pressure group Peta has found itself on the wrong end of an Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) ruling after running a "meat kills" advert that alluded to swine flu. The ASA has told Peta to pull the campaign amid concerns people might think eating meat somehow puts you at risk of getting the virus.

A gang of internet fraudsters was facing jail today for using a sophisticated computer virus to steal £600,000 from bank customers.

The H1N1 virus is back, and the young are most vulnerable. Just how worried should we be – and how can we keep our children safe? Jeremy Laurance gets the answers from Britain's leading paediatrician

Criminal cyber networks have begun creating viruses to hack into mobile phones in order to steal sensitive information off devices which are increasingly becoming mini-computers in our pockets.

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Microsoft says its new computer security program can be downloaded starting today.

An ultra-aggressive ride in the last lap of the World Championships saw the Manxman Pete Kennaugh claim fourth in the under-23 men's road race yesterday. The 20-year-old made a gutsy lone breakaway on the final climb of the arduous 179-kilometre circuit here in Switzerland, in hot pursuit of the leading trio. Kennaugh did not manage to catch them, but his fourth place equalled Rotherham rider Ben Swift's result in the same event last September. It is also the top result for Great Britain so far in the 2009 World Championships.

No one can accuse the trio of lords who now run the Department of Business of holding back in their mission to scour the globe for opportunities for Britain. As Lord Mandelson was arriving back from a trade trip to China, Lord Hunt was just departing for Kazakhstan and now Lord Davies is off to India too. Their globetrotting knows no bounds.

Ministers today urged schools to adopt basic hygiene measures to help curb the spread of swine flu prior to an expected second wave of the virus this autumn.

If having your bank account hovered clean or irreplaceable data trashed by viruses and malware is keeping you awake at night, expect even more insomnia thanks to the security boffins at Symantec.

Here's uSocial.net with an idea to make money from Facebook. The company is offering users of the social networking site the chance to "buy" friends and fans following the launch of a similar service on Twitter. Chief executive Leon Hill claims it will help his clients to use the websites as a marketing tool, connecting like-minded people with similar interests. Diary is aware that making money from services such as Facebook ("monetising" in geek speak) and the internet in general is one of the hot business issues of the moment. But, really, that's just so sad it makes diary want to cry.