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Despite everything it said about communications being encrypted and thus safe, WhatsApp has been hacked. Any attack on popular software could potentially affect billions of users. While this vulnerability has been patched, users need to be aware that the software they use daily might not be secure. Said Oded Vanunu, Head of Products Vulnerability Research, Check Point Software Technologies: "The issue affects WhatsApp for Android and iOS, the vulnerability, identified as CVE-2019-3568, can successfully be exploited to install the spyware and steal data from a targeted Android phone or iPhone by merely placing a WhatsApp call, even when the call is not answered. "Also, the victim would not be able to find out about the intrusion afterward as the spyware erases the incoming call information from the logs to operate stealthily. Still open – in order to escape the sandbox to the OS we assume more zero days were used." A zero day vulnerability is one for w...

- Singapore customers can buy the HUAWEI MateBook 13 and MateBook X Pro from May 30, 2019. - HUAWEI P30 Pro in Amber Sunrise will be available for units with 512 GB storage. The Huawei Consumer Business Group Singapore has announced that it will be expanding its product offerings in Singapore from smartphones and smartwatches to laptops. The laptop range includes the latest HUAWEI MateBook 13 and MateBook X Pro. Xu Chengfei, MD, Huawei Consumer Business Group Singapore said, “We are excited to introduce our latest range of laptops in Singapore featuring premium aesthetics and powerful performance. In recent years, we have experienced double-digit growth locally which signifies a strong customer base with an appetite for innovative, high-quality products. As we continue to look at ways to expand our product offerings in the market, we want our customers to enjoy a seamless interconnected user experience within the product ecosystem.” The HUAWEI MateBook 13 was first revealed a...

Qlik is launching Qlik Sense Enterprise on Qlik Cloud Services. This aligns the Qlik analytics platform with customers’ cloud-first strategies. With thisi development, all deployment options for Qlik Sense Enterprise - including Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows - now work cohesively as part of Qlik’s multicloud deployment framework that can be managed as one instance. With the latest release of Qlik Sense Enterprise, Qlik now enables users to deploy Qlik Sense Enterprise entirely on Qlik Cloud Services, Qlik’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) environment. Additionally, businesses can choose to deploy Qlik Sense Enterprise on Kubernetes in the public or private cloud of their choice. The move also makes Qlik the leading modern business intelligence (BI) and analytics platform vendor to provide broad multicloud deployment options, all of which are available under a single subscription-licensing model. “Enterprises want insights at scale throughout their organisation and across th...