Date: July 3rd, 2018, 7:30 pm Location: Danbury Hospital Creasy Auditorium Presenter: Bob Gostischa Our presenter this month comes from Avast Software. Evangelist security expert, Norbert “Bob” Gostischa, will explain the current dangers that face us on a daily basis on the Internet. He’ll also … [Read more...]
Your Home Router may be Vulnerable – Again!
The Internet of Things is striking once again, or more accurately, the IoT is being exploited again for nefarious purposes. The Bad Guys (yes, them again) have taken a reported vulnerability in many home routers and turned it into massive botnets. This article includes a test to see if your router … [Read more...]
International Pi Day at Microsoft Store (rescheduled)
Saturday, March 25, 2017, 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Rescheduled due to the storm on the actual Pi Day, the Danbury Microsoft Store is having a Raspberry PI show and tell. They want to invite anyone in the area to bring their Raspberry PI projects and show them off. They plan to have a prize for the … [Read more...]
December 2016: Apple Workshop – Hour of Code
As a follow-on to the December general meeting on cord cutting, we talked about the tvOS 10.1 update for the 4th generation Apple TV that introduces the new “TV” app. This app allows you to search for movies and TV shows across all supporting apps such as Netflix, Hulu, iTunes, and many … [Read more...]
May 2016: John Patrick on Net Attitude
As Bert Goff noted in his introduction, this was John R. Patrick’s 24th presentation at a DACS General Meeting. We invite him back because we learn something new every time. Year after year, John’s presentation is always our best-attended meeting. The kicker to all this is that it really puts the … [Read more...]
Hacker Lexicon: What Counts as a Nation’s Critical Infrastructure?
This has implications all the way from the Internet of Things to our nation's electrical grid and how reliable is our power distribution infrastructure. Read on... … [Read more...]
August/September 2015 Single Board Computer Workshop
Windows 10 IoT on the Raspberry Pi 2 Is IoT the NBT? If you said “Yes!”, then Microsoft might have something in a version of Windows 10 that runs on the Raspberry Pi 2. If your answer was “Huh?”, well that’s ok. We'll learn together. “IoT” means the Internet of things. No matter what that is, … [Read more...]
The Internet of Things with Steven Posick
At the DACS October 2014 meeting, Steven Posick explained the “Internet of Things” (IoT). Steven works in this field at ESPN, as Associate Director, Production Workflow Application Development. He is also a member of SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers) and has served as a … [Read more...]
The Internet of Things
Presenter: Steven Posick, Associate Director, Production Workflow Application Development at ESPN Date: Tuesday, October 7th, 7 p.m. Location: Danbury Hospital Auditorium If you haven’t heard the term “Internet of Things (IoT)” before, you probably will soon. We’re all used to accessing the … [Read more...]