The Kik Messenger social media platform, used by some 300 million people, is due to close down on 19 October, 2019.

Symantec president and chief executive Greg Clark has suddenly left his post before a permanent replacement was in place, with the company naming director Richard Hill as a temporary fill-in. Clark was the fifth top executive to quit in the last six months.

A second scam email pretending to contain an invoice from accounting software provider Xero has recently surfaced, according to security company MailGuard.