This posting is here to collect cyber security news in December 2019. I post links to security vulnerability news to comments of this article. If you are interested in cyber security trends, read my Cyber security trends 2019 posting. You are also free to post related links. →
https://www.ripe.net/publications/news/about-ripe-ncc-and-ripe/the-ripe-ncc-has-run-out-of-ipv4-addresses This announcement should not come as a surprise for network operators – IPv4 run-out has long been anticipated and planned for by the RIPE community. We have reached the end of the internet as we used to know it (IPv4). The cat has a cheeseburger. Rick Astley has given us up and let us →
https://blog.arduino.cc/2019/10/18/arduino-pro-ide-alpha-preview-with-advanced-features/ Arduino has a new interesting looking IDE coming. Now in Alpha version. The Arduino Pro IDE is a completely new Development Environment for Arduino Programming based on Arduino CLI, Eclipse Theia Open Source IDE and Electron framework. The Arduino Pro IDE promises to bring new features for advanced users whilst retaining continuity with the →
happen to own IKEA Bekant motor adjustable table. It worked nicely for around years, and served well as my working table. Though there are only simple “Up” and “Down” buttons installed by default, it works OK. But one day I found out that some day moving the table up and down did not work anymore. →
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http://www.indieretronews.com/2019/10/internet-archive-adds-over-2500-dos.html?m=1 “The Archive” has had for years a massive game list from the 1970′s through to the 1990′s from systems such as the CPC, NES, MSX. They are all emulated in JSMAME in web browser. The list contains hundreds of games. Well they’ve just gone one big step further by listing over 2,500 DOS games. →
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-amd-hedt-pancakes,6366.html So some testers took Intel and AMD’s HEDT processors to find out, which of the two company’s high-end chips makes a better pancake? Do not try this at home. →
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Programmer The Day of the Programmer is an international professional day that is celebrated on the 256th (hexadecimal 100th, or the 28th) day of each year (September 13 during common years and on September 12 in leap years). →
SimJacker is 0-day vulnerability under active attack according to this article: Dubbed “SimJacker,” the vulnerability resides in a particular piece of software, called the S@T Browser (a dynamic SIM toolkit), embedded on most SIM cards. New SIM Card Flaw Lets Hackers Hijack Any Phone Just By Sending SMS https://thehackernews.com/2019/09/simjacker-mobile-hacking.html Huge security issue claims need some →
https://www.python.org/doc/sunset-python-2/ Volunteers who make and take care of the Python programming language have decided that January 1, 2020, will be the day that we sunset Python 2. That means that the people who develop python will not improve it anymore after that day. Even if people find catastrophic security problems in Python 2, or in →