Date: Tuesday, January 3th, 7:30 p.m. Location: Danbury Hospital Auditorium Presenter: Jay Ferron HoloLens is a virtual reality (VR) headset made by Microsoft and currently available only to developers. Ace presenter, Jay Ferron will discuss and demonstrate the actual device, live and in … [Read more...]
Archives for 2016
DACS Board Meeting Minutes, November 2, 2016
The meeting was called to order at 7:15 pm by the DACS President, Dave Green. In attendance were board members Richard Corzo, Bert Goff (Secretary & Treasurer), Dave Green (President), Dick Gingras, Jim Scheef (via phone), and Andy Woodruff. Cathy Quaranta, and Tom Zarecki were not … [Read more...]
Linux Workshop for December 21st.
At our workshop starting at 7:30 pm we’ll discuss recent vulnerabilites as they affect the computing world--focusing on problems posed for Linux distributions such as Ubuntu and Fedora. I'll propose a possible solution of what to do with old unused hard drives that contain private information. … [Read more...]
Hacker Lexicon: What Is Perfect Forward Secrecy?
How secret do we need to be? Read this, even your banks website with "https" may not be enough. Read more... … [Read more...]
Firefox v 50.0.2 released
When a bug is found, how dangerous is it? That's the question because to not patch your system means you assume the risk that bug won't be used to break in to your system. Both the Firefox and Tor browsers have been patched to close the underlying bug reported here yesterday. The new version of … [Read more...]
Firefox 0-day in the wild is being used to attack Tor users
Update: Firefox version 50.0.2 has been released to fix the problem reported below. Read more... This is a serious vulnerability that affects all Firefox users, not just people using Tor. The proof of concept exploit posted to the Tor browser mailing list used apparently old code to expose a Tor … [Read more...]
New OS from Kaspersky Labs
The first new operating system in many years - maybe a decade. Kaspersky claims the OS was built on security rather than adding in security later. Read more... … [Read more...]
Jay W. Forrester Dies at 98; a Pioneer in Computer Models
Near the end of WWII, Jay Forrester took on a project to build the first aircraft simulator that could simulate any aircraft. He quickly realized that the analog computing tools of the day were no where near fast enough to perform the many calculations required to determine what an airplane would do … [Read more...]
Finding a Non-Mac Alternative to Microsoft
The alternatives look better all the time, but it can require a large leap of faith. Read the article.... … [Read more...]
December Preview: Cable TV Cord Cutting
Date: Tuesday, December 6th, 7:30 p.m. Location: Danbury Hospital Auditorium Presenter: Bill Saturno This should prove to be a very popular topic for those many of us that use cable TV to watch television. Our cable TV bills are so expensive, with packages that include many channels that we … [Read more...]
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