The world's superpowers, the US, Russia and China, are the top three sources of malicious content, with Britain a lowly 14th, according to two reports by security experts Kaspersky Lab.
Quest Diagnostics, the £3.3bn a year diagnostics test company, has signed a joint venture deal with HCL Infosystems to develop a portable patient record file and to enter the billion dollar Indian market for healthcare diagnostic services.
Barclays Bank is to advise all customers making payments online to use its two-factor security system from next month, in what amounts to a rapid expansion of the technology.
The Wellcome Trust has implemented a power and space saving open standards based data storage system to preserve 250,000 digital images from more than 70 years of medical research and 2000 years of human culture.