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

The Pirate Bay Delivers Tongue-lashing to Anonymous over Virgin Media DDoS

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

The Pirate Bay is unhappy with hackers from Anonymous who have taken it upon themselves to punish Virgin Media for following the edicts of the UK High Court. Cells of the hacktivist collective have recently placed the ISP in their sights for …

Symantec Mobile Leads the Pack in the Bring-Your-Own-Device Trend Security

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

As the enterprise sector begins to look deeper into the trend of allowing their workers to bring their own device to the workplace—as opposed to a proprietary model designed for the enterprise itself—a number of security risks begin to crop up. Uncontrolled …

55,000 Twitter Accounts and Passwords Leaked Partially Spambots, Duplicates, Old LulzSec Leak

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

Yesterday, a gigantic leak of over 55,000 account credentials (usernames and passwords) from Twitter were leaked to Pastebin by an unknown benefactor. According to a CNET article on the event, Twitter is looking into the problem right now—and, after some investigation, found …

NASA, Air Force, Harvard Compromised by Hacker Crew ‘The Unknowns’

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

Last month saw a rash of hacks hit a variety of high profile targets including NASA, the U.S. Air Force, the French Ministry of Defense, the European Space Agency, the Bahrain Ministry of Defense, the Thai Royal Navy, and Harvard University’s School …

Scalify Raises $2 Million for Peer-to-Peer Cloud-Gaming Networking

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

Melbourne-based gaming start-up Scalify is looking to amplify their efforts to bring peer-to-peer networking to the gaming community after an infusion of $2 million in investment from Starfish Ventures. According to an article in VentureBeat, the start-up intends to use this investment …

Video Game Uses the Crowd-Sourced Gaming to Help Doctors Diagnose Malaria

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

Researchers at the University of California are seeking to make gamers the next line of defense in the fight against malaria via a free Internet-based pattern recognition game that has players play “pick the infected blood cell.” Standard identification of an infection …

The Pirate Bay Experiences Traffic Boost After Block; Youth Look into Privacy via VPN

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

In what can only be expected to be a reflection of the Streisand Effect phenomena—the more you try to hide something on the Internet, the more people will spread it around—the UK High Court’s move to force ISPs to block The Pirate …

Google: Don’t Force a Merge Between G+ and YouTube for Upvotes

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

It may be a matter of a development mistake or it could be that Google is on the verge of a drop over a very serious precipice: merging G+ and YouTube and forcing users to have G+ accounts in order to upvote …

Will Cable and Satellite Mean the Death of Free Hulu Internet TV?

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

Dark rumors and accusations seem to be telling a compelling narrative about Hulu—the broadly popular venue for free Internet TV (supported by advertisements)—potentially backing away from offering their media without strings to the pubic and instead requiring cable or satellite authentication. The …

Flashback Trojan Sought $10,000 Per Day in Google Ad Revenue Fraud

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

According to the security outfit Symantec, the Flashback Trojan discovered to be infecting over 600,000 Mac OSX machines has a variant that may have net the botnet owners potentially up to $10,0000 a day. The malware targets Google advertisements in a click-fraud …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

The Pirate Bay Delivers Tongue-lashing to Anonymous over Virgin Media DDoS

Symantec Mobile Leads the Pack in the Bring-Your-Own-Device Trend Security

55,000 Twitter Accounts and Passwords Leaked Partially Spambots, Duplicates, Old LulzSec Leak

NASA, Air Force, Harvard Compromised by Hacker Crew ‘The Unknowns’

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