All, Our enhanced meeting on June 26th will now feature two speakers and be a joint NPSS and EMC Society meeting. Due to the extensive technical program, the social hour with light refreshments will begin at 6:30 PM and the technical meeting will start at 7:00 PM. The joint meeting will be held at EMC Corporation's Customer Briefing Center in Hopkinton, MA. The first technical presentation will start at 7:00 PM with a 45 minute expected duration. Our second technical presentation will start around 7:45 PM or immediately after any questions for our first speaker.
Doug Smith, IEEE EMC Society Distinguished Lecturer, will present this months first topic concerning Computer Security for the Engineer, 'The Knock in the Middle of the Night'. What is the worst thing that can happen to your computer? It may be much worse than just losing your files or having them posted on the Internet for all to see. Dougs talk will cover some of the things that can happen and how to avoid them. Screen shots from an attack on Doug's computer will be shown to illustrate some of the things that can happen. The remote diagnosis feature provided by many laptop manufacturers, including Doug's, leaves them wide open to attack from hackers. During a recent trip, that weakness was probed 4 times in 2 hours over a dialup by hackers! Bring your laptop with a modem and check it out real time. As food for thought, a recording of the emissions from Doug's home computer as heard on a short-wave radio will be played to show that different computer activities, such as surfing the Internet and printing, can be identified. Vincent DeGiorgio, Senior Risk Consultant for ArupRisk Consulting will be presenting this months second technical topic concerning the risk assessment process and its application. Risk can be found everywhere such as when you are driving your car, entering your place of work or taking an airplane flight to start your vacation. By definition risk is a measure of the potential for loss in terms of both the likelihood (events/year) of the incident and the consequences (effects/event) of the incident. In order to measure the level of risk, a systemic approach known as the risk assessment process is employed. This process can be used to assess a wide range of risks related to facilities, equipment, seismic, 911, etc. This presentation will examine the risk assessment process and see how it can be applied to address risks that may be of concern to you. The 2002 NPSS meeting schedule is available on the NPSS website at http://www.nepss.org/meetings/npss2002kf.html. Further information about the Northeast Product Safety Society and how to become a member is available at http://www.nepss.org. You can also contact one of the NPSS officers via links at http://www.nepss.org/secretary/officerskf.html. Directions: >From Route 495 North or South take exit 21B to South Street. At the first traffic light, turn left (Note: This is on South direction side of Route 495). EMC Corporation is the second driveway on the right. Matt Campanella NPSS Secretary Compliance Engineer Motorola, Inc. Broadband Communications Sector 3 Highwood Drive East Tewksbury, MA 01876 (978) 858-2303 Direct (978) 858-2300 Main (978) 858-2399 Fax [email protected] email ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: [email protected] Dave Heald: [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] Jim Bacher: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://ieeepstc.mindcruiser.com/ Click on "browse" and then "emc-pstc mailing list"
