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...]
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...]
How to Protect Yourself After the Yahoo Attack
The Yahoo hack affected millions of people. Even if you have not been notified by Yahoo, you should take precautions beginning with changing your password on every site where you used the same password as at Yahoo. Since every one of these new passwords will be unique, you need to set up and use a … [Read more...]
General Meeting Review October 4, 2016
John R. Patrick on Election Attitude This is such a timely topic that we really wanted the opportunity to hear Dr. John R. Patrick speak before the election. As John pointed out at the start of his talk, in recent years he has published books on, and talked to us about Net Attitude, Health … [Read more...]
Single Board Computer Workshop
Here is our schedule for the remainder of the year. October - no meeting November - we'll meet and discuss what we want to do next year. What boards do we want to target? Should we discuss individual projects? Should we have a group project that we can all do together? December - no … [Read more...]
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