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

North American Blizzard Players Swept Up in Hack that Also Breached Authenticators

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

Blizzard, the well known publisher of super-popular games such as World of Warcraft and Diablo 3, has suffered a breach—as a result, before jumping back into the game (or if you’re a hardcore gaming before doing anything) you should log into the …

Anonymous Strikes Back Against Ukrainian Government over BitTorrent with #OpDemonoid

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

The Anonymous hacktivist collective has pulled their try-hard pants on and taken their stomping books to the Ukrainian government over the takedown of the popular BitTorrent tracker Demonoid. As reported by TorrentFreak, the raid appears to have been done at the behest …

A Week of Infiltration, from the Olympics to Dropbox and Beyond

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

This week we’ve seen a dipping off of the London Olympics as the schedule begins to wind down, but that doesn’t mean that we’re not looking at it edgewise from the point of view of Big Data—Saroj Kar notices this year people …

Adrian Cockcroft Architecture Director at Netflix in #theCube Talking Chaos Monkey and Cassandra

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

John Furrier sat down in theCube to speak with Adrian Cockcroft, Director of architecture for the Cloud Systems team at Netflix, and together they spoke about how Netflix handled the recent power outages, the AWS cloud failure, and how their system has …

H+ Teaser Video: The H is for Post-Apocalyptic Transhumanism

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

Science fiction has always been a gold mine for the hopes and dreams of geeks everywhere—in fact, people might still think about the whole meme of “It’s the 21st century, where’s my flying cars?” One of the aspects of data technology is …

How Does Enterprise Solve “The Dropbox Problem” ShareFile Provider Citrix Speaks

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

It’s been a lot like the poem The Highwayman recently with the IT industry a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas and as a result many in enterprise have been looking to how to provide cloud locker services to their employees and …

Hacker Dojo Auctions Off Its Geek Smarts for Charity

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

Geeks have always been greater than the sum of their stereotypes and the developer community center Hacker Dojo is taking that to the next level. The idea of an incubator isn’t one lost on us technological folks and bringing together great minds …

Dropbox Acknowledges Employee Hacked; Threats Don’t Always Hit the Clients Directly

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

Over the recent weeks, fears of a breach at Dropbox fueled a great deal of speculation when clients of the cloud-storage service discovered an increase in spam coming to e-mail addresses they registered there. To their credit, Dropbox quickly got the ball …

What We can Learn from What Netflix Learned from the AWS Failure

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

Late in June (last month) the Amazon Web Services suffered a catastrophic series of failures often now referred to as an “AWS Storm” and Netflix found themselves caught up in the middle of it as their own servers were intimately linked to …

Where We Can Go With Augmented Reality: The Spartan Gamified World Revisited in SIGHT

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

With Google Glasses and other potential competing products coming into the limelight, the technological consciousness is going to slowly merge with the expectations set for us by science fiction books and futurist designs. To understand how one element of augmented reality—the ability …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

North American Blizzard Players Swept Up in Hack that Also Breached Authenticators

Anonymous Strikes Back Against Ukrainian Government over BitTorrent with #OpDemonoid

A Week of Infiltration, from the Olympics to Dropbox and Beyond

Adrian Cockcroft Architecture Director at Netflix in #theCube Talking Chaos Monkey and Cassandra

H+ Teaser Video: The H is for Post-Apocalyptic Transhumanism

Hacker Dojo Auctions Off Its Geek Smarts for Charity

Where We Can Go With Augmented Reality: The Spartan Gamified World Revisited in SIGHT

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