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

Anonymous/AntiSec Defaces Panda Security Website in Revenge

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Website defacement has become the mainstay of what essentially boils down to cybervandalism—and, just like its inner-city variant, it’s used as a medium to spread both playful and political messages. Yesterday, a multitude of subdomains belonging to security firm Panda Security were …

Dwolla Caught in Legal Feud with Bitcoin Exchange TradeHill for $2 Million

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

In what has all the hallmarks of a legal fiasco, Bitcoin exchange TradeHill has filed suit against payment network startup Dwolla and alleged racketeering, intentional misrepresentation, false advertising, and breach of contract, among other violations. TradeHill is claiming that Dwolla has cost …

2011 Provides a Record Year for PC Video Game Sales, Cloud and F2P Dominate

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

As an industry and entertainment avenue video games intersect across numerous layers of human life, so when the PC Gaming Alliance (PCGA) came out with their “Horizons” research report, it really wasn’t a surprise that 2011 was a record year for the …

US Files for Extradition of Megaupload Suspects at Last Minute

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Just when you thought the Megaupload saga has reached a fever pitch and couldn’t climb any further up drama mountain, US authorities waited until the eleventh-hour to file extradition papers on the suspects in the case. The United Statesas officially requested the …

CloudFlare Speaks Out About Their Experience Hosting LulzSec

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

“You have my permission. — Jack Sparrow” That’s what a representative of LulzSec told CloudFlare CEO Matthew Prince when he asked permission to tell the tale of rough water and a siege on the cyberseas that resulted from his company protecting the …

Linode Breach Leads to Massive Heist of 46,000 BTC from Bitcoinica, Faucet

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Numerous media sources are reporting now on a massive heist of Bitcoin wallets as the result of the hack of the cloud-hosting provider Linode. Last night, Ars Technica was able to confirm that over 46,703 BTC (almost $228,845 USD worth) had been …

Game Dev Starbreeze Reaches Out to Pirates, Offers Jobs

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Alongside the release of the Xbox 360 version of EA’s Syndicate came the expected releases from the warez Scene. With each upcoming release of a game, the warez community does its best to beat the release date to the wires of the …

Pervasive Software DataRush Will Make Hadoop “Faster and Easier”

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Mike Hoskins, CTO, EVP Pervasive Software, says that in a nutshell Pervasive is making Hadoop “faster and easier.” It’s all about making big data processing and data mining both faster and easier. While it’s not true that Hadoop is either slow or …

Microsoft’s Windows Azure Experiences Outage

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Reports of Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud platform having a bad day apparently cannot be exaggerated enough—customers are reporting that the system has been all-but-entirely offline for hours. According to The Register, the problems began around 9 p.m. ET on February 28 and …

Marc Smith from Social Media Research Foundation Speaks on Big Data

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Social media gathers people together into communities and as people interact they produce and spin off tremendous amounts of data. That data is so considerable and detailed that they only way to approach it is through the praxis of big data theories …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

Anonymous/AntiSec Defaces Panda Security Website in Revenge

Dwolla Caught in Legal Feud with Bitcoin Exchange TradeHill for $2 Million

US Files for Extradition of Megaupload Suspects at Last Minute

Linode Breach Leads to Massive Heist of 46,000 BTC from Bitcoinica, Faucet

Game Dev Starbreeze Reaches Out to Pirates, Offers Jobs

Pervasive Software DataRush Will Make Hadoop “Faster and Easier”

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