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

Facebook Testing “Want” Button: A Preemptive Strike Against Amazon and Pinterest Wishlists?

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

Facebook is developing a new functionality into its SDK to allow users to “Want” something with much the same functionality as they could use to “Like” something. Developer Tom Waddington says that he discovered the functionality in Facebook’s JavaScript SDK under the …

Anonymous Claims Responsibility for Japanese Website Outages, Defacement

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

Not to sit idly on their collective Guy Fawkes masks, Anonymous has found a new target to harass for violating their sense of information ethics: Japan. The websites of Japan’s Finance Ministry, Supreme Court and political parties DPJ and LDP were taken …

Google Glasses at Google I/O 2012: Capture and Share Your World

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

Google has been riding a wave of hype related to their Google Glasses (called “Project Glass”) and they’re not shy about this product—in fact, they interrupted their own G+ product keynote portion to demo the glasses and provide the astonished audience with …

Scientists Open Up RSA SecurID 800 and Steal Cryptographic Keys in Under 13 Minutes

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

An exploit revealed in a paper [PDF] at the CRYPTO 2012 conference shows a flaw in some of RSA’s products that can allow the rapid extraction of secret symmetric secret keys. According to researchers, it could be done as quickly as 13 …

A Powerful Case for Good Use of Big Data for Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity via Splunk

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

When it comes to protecting an enterprise network or a government network there’s a great deal of discussion about what solutions exist to batten down the hatches and dog the doors against intruders; but often the same technologies we use to detect …

Boxopus Brings Torrents Out of the Cloud and Directly Into Your Dropbox

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

It’s strange that the function of peer-to-peer technology doesn’t often combine directly with cloud efforts because the strategy behind p2p fits so neatly into the jigsaw of the cloud. It certainly does combine behind the scenes more often than not, even though …

Bitinstant Reviews The Bitcoin Card, It’s Real: Small, Thin, and Smart

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

Earlier this month SiliconANGLE got wind of a new piece of technology being developed to revolutionize mobile cash transactions by giving people the ability to store and transfer bitcoins via a device as small and thin as a credit card. Not just …

“Cascading Bug” Bites Twitter Drawing the Wrath of the Fail Whale

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

Today a lot of Twitter users found themselves unable to access their tweets and retweet their friends after Twitter suffered a bug that caused it to become intermittently inaccessible to their users. The fail whale once again reared its albino head with …

Xbox 720 Leak Confuses Press While Microsoft Uses Copyright to Suppress Document

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

Over the weekend a strange document leaked from Microsoft that quickly spread into numerous cloud storage venues outlining a long-term plan for the Xbox 720. The video game console giant was extremely slow to move to do anything about the leak and …

Security Expert Bruce Schneier Admonishes Antivirus Industry Over Flame, DuQu, and Stuxnet

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

The subject of state-sponsored malware has become a major topic across the cybersecurity media lines, and for good reason: not only has it been caught in the nets of antivirus firms, but we’ve decompiled it and received confirmation from the states who …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

Facebook Testing “Want” Button: A Preemptive Strike Against Amazon and Pinterest Wishlists?

Anonymous Claims Responsibility for Japanese Website Outages, Defacement

Google Glasses at Google I/O 2012: Capture and Share Your World

Scientists Open Up RSA SecurID 800 and Steal Cryptographic Keys in Under 13 Minutes

A Powerful Case for Good Use of Big Data for Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity via Splunk

Bitinstant Reviews The Bitcoin Card, It’s Real: Small, Thin, and Smart

“Cascading Bug” Bites Twitter Drawing the Wrath of the Fail Whale

Xbox 720 Leak Confuses Press While Microsoft Uses Copyright to Suppress Document

Security Expert Bruce Schneier Admonishes Antivirus Industry Over Flame, DuQu, and Stuxnet

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