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

Kinect Used to Operate Four-Story High Pipe Organ in Australia

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

Melbourne, Australia is the home of an extravagant and beautiful four-story high pipe organ called the Town Hall Grand Organ—installed in 1872, the organ was almost entirely rebuilt in 1905 and still stands today. Originally built and installed by William Hill and …

Anonymous Brings DDoS Fist Down on UK and Turns Attention Towards China Over Human Rights

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

The Anonymous collective brewed up a storm over this weekend by taking aim at government websites belonging to China and England. The cells involved have been communicating via Twitter and made warning of their attacks days ahead of time. The Anonymous spokespeople …

Utah Gets a Cybersecurity Rude Awakening: 181,000 Medical Records Hacked

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

With cybersecurity the way that it is, data breaches are constantly rolling news and when it comes to cultures such as Anonymous and hactivist groups like LulzSec it was the amount of data taken or the number of lives touched that made …

SOPA and PROTECTIP Grumble in the Grave: Let’s Salt and Burn the Bones

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

It looks like in an almost zombie film action, SOPA and PROTECTIP may be lurching back from the dead—and like all good zombies, it’s out for brains: storage and cloud will be the first on the plate. We’ve seen a long and …

The Future’s So Bright I Gotta Wear Google Glasses: 5 Possible Innovations

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

By now, almost everyone watching Google—and the Internet—will be aware of the first prototype for the search giant’s sci-fi project X augmented reality glasses. They’ve changed somewhat from our first expectations (a bit less covering and more VISOR-like) but Project Glass continues …

Massive Credit Card Breach Exposes 1.5 Million Customers

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

Monday, Atlanta-based Global Payments disclosed that hackers accessed their systems and stole credit and debit card account information for almost 1.5 million customers. Although spokespeople form their outfit have been claiming the event has been “contained” others see this as a shakeup …

Bitcoin Draws the Attention of British Traders

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

Bitcoin is making the news again after British traders have gotten wind of the speculative potential of the currency and began to try their hand at buying into it like any other commodity market. The news comes via Reuters in an article …

Tomorrow: Anonymous Threatens to Blackout the Internet on March 31st

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

From the Internet’s heart, Anonymous stabs at thee. As we all know the hacktivist collective Anonymous released a threat to darken the Internet on March 31st by attacking the Domain Name Service root servers, according to a post on Pastebin from February. …

Big Things Planned for Microsoft’s Kinect for Windows 1.5

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

May 2012 will see the release of a new version of the Kinect software for Windows and this week Microsoft’s Craig Eisler published a sneak peek into what we can expect from this update. Looking at the array of SDK options, the …

Fresh Back from the Dead Kelihos Botnet Returned to the Grave (Again)

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

With the opportunity and profit that can be had from running a fraud or spam botnet, it’s really hard to put these things down—even shooting them in the head, like a traditional movie zombie, no longer works. Over the past six months …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

Kinect Used to Operate Four-Story High Pipe Organ in Australia

Anonymous Brings DDoS Fist Down on UK and Turns Attention Towards China Over Human Rights

Utah Gets a Cybersecurity Rude Awakening: 181,000 Medical Records Hacked

The Future’s So Bright I Gotta Wear Google Glasses: 5 Possible Innovations

Massive Credit Card Breach Exposes 1.5 Million Customers

Bitcoin Draws the Attention of British Traders

Tomorrow: Anonymous Threatens to Blackout the Internet on March 31st

Big Things Planned for Microsoft’s Kinect for Windows 1.5

Fresh Back from the Dead Kelihos Botnet Returned to the Grave (Again)

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