Kyt Dotson

Kyt Dotson is a Senior Editor at SiliconAngle and works to cover beats surrounding DevOps, security, gaming, and cutting edge technology. Before joining SiliconAngle, Kyt worked as a software engineer starting at Motorola in Q&A to eventually settle at Pets911.com where he helped build a vast database for pet adoption and a lost and found system. Kyt is a published author who writes science fiction and fantasy works that incorporate ideas from modern-day technological innovation and explore the outcome of living with those technologies.

Latest from Kyt Dotson

Google Celebrates Ada Lovelace With a Beautiful Doodle

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

If you missed it, Google has celebrated the 197th birthday of Ada Lovelace with a beautiful Google doodle. She is often referred to the first programmer and is chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage’s early mechanical general purpose computer, the …

Appthority Knows What Business is Thinking About App Security

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

Mobile development right now is fundamentally fragmented between a multitude of devices and a powerful ecology of vendors and platforms—on the cultural side, the rise of BYOD and personal connectivity has been a constant thorn in the side of corporate IT. Developers …

25 GPU System Unveiled at Passwords^12 Conference Eats Password Hashes for Breakfast

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

At the Passwords^12 Conference in Oslo, Norway researcher Jeremi Gosney presented an extremely powerful password cracking rig that wields a spectacularly heavy 25 GPUs in order to quickly chew through cryptographic hashes and extract the passwords that they hide. The slides are …

Anonymous Shows Us Again: People Still Suck at Choosing Passwords in 2012

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

Back when I worked as a programmer and sysadmin for a nonprofit, myself and other admins would sometimes make new login credentials for members and often the first password was something like “changeme,” and connected to a rule that forced the user …

AppDirect Launches Incubator Program for Enterprising Developers

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

AppDirect, a leading cloud service marketplace company, is launching the AppDirect Developer Incubator Program, a unique 3 year program designed to give developers a risk-free way to pursue their dreams and make the jump from developer to entrepreneur. The unique and innovation …

NSA Whistleblower William Binney Appears on RT, Big Data and Surveillance

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

As a security writer and futurist, when I hear someone from a cryptoanalysis outfit say the word “zettabyte” my ears do more than perk up, they triangulate and begin a careful spectrum analysis. So, when I was listening to NSA Whistleblower William …

Stand Down, Liar! HP’s Battle Cry Heard Around the World

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

Last week saw drama rarely seen in the tech world when the numbers from Autonomy didn’t match what HP had paid for; Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch fired back at accusations with an open letter to HP, but the content of his letter …

Syria Just Fell Off the Face of the Internet: Sudden Nationwide Blackout

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

The AP is now reporting that Syria has dropped off the Internet as the government imposed a blackout over the entire nation’s critical communications from Internet to cellphones services (in select areas.) Thursday, rebels and government troops are engaged in warfare in …

HP Converged Cloud: A Rich and Converged Cloud Delivers Automation Solution

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

With HP Discover just over the horizon–happening December 4-6 in Frankfurt, Germany–it’s a good time to start looking at what products and services that HP has to offer that directly impact the work done in DevOps. The cloud is an important and growing …

Bitcoin Halving Day Draws Nigh

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

Prepare to fall to your knees and shake your fist to the heavens, a terrible milestone is upon us, one that will forever change the fabric of an entire community. It’s not the Mayan doomsday—it’s Bitcoin halving day. Within a day or …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

Google Celebrates Ada Lovelace With a Beautiful Doodle

Appthority Knows What Business is Thinking About App Security

25 GPU System Unveiled at Passwords^12 Conference Eats Password Hashes for Breakfast

Anonymous Shows Us Again: People Still Suck at Choosing Passwords in 2012

AppDirect Launches Incubator Program for Enterprising Developers

NSA Whistleblower William Binney Appears on RT, Big Data and Surveillance

Syria Just Fell Off the Face of the Internet: Sudden Nationwide Blackout

Bitcoin Halving Day Draws Nigh

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