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

White House Chooses Budget Official as Successor for Cybersecurity Chief

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

Last week, news hit the wire that current U.S. Cybersecurity Czar, Howard Schmidt, is retiring to spend time with family and friends—and ride his motorcycle. Now, amidst a strange atmosphere of legislation regarding the state of cybersecurity in the United States the …

U.S. Cybersecurity Czar Howard Schmidt to Step Down

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

The current two-time cybersecurity advisor and czar to the Obama Administration, Howard Schmidt, is retiring the White House announced on Thursday. He was named cybersecurity coordinator and special assistant to President Obama in late 2009. Schmidt is a former Air Force officer …

The Pirate Bay and Wikileaks Undergo Massive DDoS Attack from Unknown Source

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

In what looks like some sort of punishment from an unknown source The Pirate Bay and Wikileaks have been hunkered under a sustained distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack for much of this week. Steve Ragan at SecurityWeek is reporting that TPB has gone …

Diablo III Online-Only DRM Strategy Leaves Players’ Eyes Stinging, Throats Raw

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

The much anticipated Blizzard classic game Diablo III launched Wednesday to a great deal of fanfare and an equal helping of controversy. When all the servers (across the globe) green lit on 12:00 a.m. Wednesday, 15 May 2012 thousands of players who …

Bernhard Schulzki from EMC and Satinder Sethi from Cisco Talk HANA at SAPphire 2012

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

Bernhard Schulzki, Vice President of EMC Solutions Group, and Satinder Sethi, VP of Service Access & Virtualization Technology at Cisco, spoke with Dave Vellante at SAPphire 2012 about the cloud and HANA infrastructure. (See the video at the end of the article …

Nvidia Prepares Graphics Card Lineup for the Cloud Gaming Era

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

The cloud has penetrated everything, even gaming, and Nvidia wants to craft the sails that will lead the gaming world into those cloudy waters with their upcoming Kepler-based graphics chips—these graphics cards will include features designed to enable cloud-gaming across the Internet …

Twitter UK Boasts 10 Million Active Users, Majority on Mobile Devices

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

Twitter has released some stats on their current impact in the UK and they’re quite impressive: approximately 10 million active users with 80% active on mobile phones. The company is traditionally very secretive about their stats and growth, which makes them very …

Bitcoinica Suffers Staggering $87,000 Bitcoin Loss in Server Breach

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

At approximately 1:00pm GMT last Friday, the Bitcoin exchange Bitcoinica suffered a server compromise that led to the theft of their bitcoin wallet and ended in the loss of ฿18,547 BTC—a value calculated at the current market rate of exceeding $87,000. After …

Xbox Maintains Stealth Living-Room Cloud Entertainment Crown

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

As expected, the position of a gaming console attached to millions of household TVs is proving to be an excellent strategy for Microsoft in their stealth attack into the set-top-box market. All Things D has run a blog post about a report …

Leaked FBI Report Shows Concern Over Bitcoin’s Attractiveness to Criminals

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

The FBI is apparently wary of the virtual cryptocurrency Bitcoin due to its applicability for criminals to use it to hide transactions from law enforcement—or, as they see it, use the currency for money laundering and scams. All of this was revealed …

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Latest from Kyt Dotson

White House Chooses Budget Official as Successor for Cybersecurity Chief

U.S. Cybersecurity Czar Howard Schmidt to Step Down

The Pirate Bay and Wikileaks Undergo Massive DDoS Attack from Unknown Source

Diablo III Online-Only DRM Strategy Leaves Players’ Eyes Stinging, Throats Raw

Bitcoinica Suffers Staggering $87,000 Bitcoin Loss in Server Breach

Xbox Maintains Stealth Living-Room Cloud Entertainment Crown

Leaked FBI Report Shows Concern Over Bitcoin’s Attractiveness to Criminals

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