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

Microsoft Demonstrates “Beamatron” Augmented Reality via Kinect-Projector Duo

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

As a device that “sees” the world, Microsoft’s Kinect peripheral has been providing a lot of potential methods for delivering augmented reality. In this particular demo, Andy Wilson from Microsoft Research shows off the “Beamatron”—a Kinect attached to a motorized pan-tilt armature …

Malware Infiltrating Anonymous Not So Different from Any Other Trojan Trickery

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

Wednesday, an operating system designed around a flavor of Linux was released by an apparent cell of Anonymous accordingly loaded with anonymity tools, hacking suites, and privacy software—but it also potentially came with a side of Trojans and malware—and this brought Gizmodo’s …

Creators of Wizard101 to the 2012 Keynote Digital Kids Conference in April

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

The massively-multiplayer online (MMO) gaming industry has proven itself to be a powerful vector for pulling people together to play video games and for the enterprise to capably make money. Families have always been a large consumer of entertainment and MMOs may …

Hacker Group The Consortium “Exposes” 72,000 Users from Porn Site Digital Playground

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

If there’s anything that we’ve learned from 2011, it’s that hackers like pornography… Or at least they like to hack into pornography websites, steal the usernames and passwords, personal information, and credit card numbers. This is possibly because as an industry, these …

Cloud-Streaming for Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons & Dragons Online Announced

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

With services such as OnLive producing the capability for users to play solo video games across the cloud—it seemed like it might only be a matter of time for massively-multiplayer online games to take a dip in the cloudy waters. The reason …

AntiSec Christmas Stratfor Hack Cost $700,000 in Credit Card Fraud

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

Remember last year when Anonymous and AntiSec breached the FBI think tank Stratfor and made news by making off with 200 gigabytes of personal and finical data and 60,000 credit card numbers? It was about Christmas time and Anonymous decided to make …

Anonymous Unleashes Symantec Antivirus 2006 Source Code

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Today, The Pirate Bay came to index a torrent containing the leaked source code of Symantec Norton Antivirus 2006 after a long, strange journey including hackers, intrigue, and (failed) police stings. The entire thing started in January when a hacker with the …

Anonymous Takes Down Vatican Website Alleging “Corruption”

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Not willing to sit on their heels, Anonymous recently decided to bag the Vatican. They did so through claims of retaliation against “corruption in the Roman Catholic Church,” and Wednesday morning, they took down the Vatican’s website Among the darkened websites include …

30,000 WordPress Installs Compromised In Newest Round of Malware

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

This week Websense Security Labs reported a massive infection of numerous WordPress installations by a new wave of malware distributing fake antivirus software. In their report, they cite that as of Monday, over 200,000 infected web pages had been discovered and close …

LinkedIn Acquisition of Rapportive Brings Social-Professional Magic to Gmail

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

The interesting Gmail social-context plugin, Rapportive, has been acquired by social-media for professionals company LinkedIn. Rapportive creates plugin software that provides context-sensitive social-media information on top of Gmail’s user interface. As a result, it works as a sort of highly immersive address …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

Microsoft Demonstrates “Beamatron” Augmented Reality via Kinect-Projector Duo

Malware Infiltrating Anonymous Not So Different from Any Other Trojan Trickery

Hacker Group The Consortium “Exposes” 72,000 Users from Porn Site Digital Playground

AntiSec Christmas Stratfor Hack Cost $700,000 in Credit Card Fraud

Anonymous Unleashes Symantec Antivirus 2006 Source Code

Anonymous Takes Down Vatican Website Alleging “Corruption”

30,000 WordPress Installs Compromised In Newest Round of Malware

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