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 Defaces U.S Government Consumer and FTC Websites Over ACTA with Scathing Remarks, Video

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Early Friday morning, Anonymous struck a several U.S. government websites to protest the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), an extremely controversial trade agreement between multiple nations that has been dubbed the next version of SOPA and PIPA (recently defeated copyright legislation in the …

Anonymous Threatens To Shut Down the Internet; the FBI Could Darken the Cloud Instead March 8

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Since 2011, users of the Internet have gotten used to Anonymous threatening to take numerous highly trafficked websites offline—as they successfully do so to many political websites for a few hours at a time—but many of these threats have been for naught. …

TradeHill Suspends Bitcoin Trading, Refunds Customers

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

It’s been a strange and rocky month for the Bitcoin economy with the loss of the payment network Paxum last week and now TradeHill suspending trades dealing with the cryptocurrency. In an open letter to TradeHill clients, CEO Jared Kenna, addressed the …

Anonymous Busy Over Weekend Attacking CIA, Mexico, Greece, Alabama DHS Websites

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

It’s been an extremely busy weekend for Anonymous hactivist cells who have struck out at government and police websites across the globe. On Friday, the website for the CIA was reported as having gone down. Multiple reports that it had gone down …

Steam: Hackers Accessed Backup Copy of Database in November 2011

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Over the weekend, Valve’s consumer-class cloud-based game delivery service, Steam had an announcement about the hack that affected their service in November 2011. Gabe Newell, CEO of Steam, told users that while hackers had not accessed Steam passwords, they did get personal …

Syrian Officials Discover When They Choose Bad Passwords, Anonymous Will Get In

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

As a democratizing agent, the Internet gives access to a multitude of people to a multitude of targets and Syrian President Bashar Assad’s office discovered recently that extremely poor Internet security acts like cracks in the dyke—the Internet will get in. On …

Video Game Developer Double Fine Raises $1 Million Overnight with Kickstarter

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Best known for their hit video game Psychonauts and Brutal Legend starring Jack Black, Double Fine’s founder, Tim Schafer, decided to eschew the convention of pitching an idea to a publisher and decided to use crowdfunding site Kickstarter to pitch directly to …

Google Wallet Security Woes Don’t Reflect Poorly on NFC or Mobility

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

With the climb of mobile banking, and now the event horizon for the use of mobile phones as wallets, we’re going to start seeing a great deal more security issues also appear in this financial forest. Recently, a security research team discovered …

Massively Multiplayer Online Games as a Model for Business Collaboration

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Video games aren’t just a wave of the future; they’re the current reality for millions of players who take to their consoles and PCs every day. The video game industry is the fastest growing entertainment market on Earth right now and we’re constantly seeing …

Symantec Code Leak Happens Where Sidewalk Ends in Law Enforcement Sting Attempt

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

The source code stolen from Symantec in 2006 has been waiting in limbo for the past month as part of a hostage negotiation between the hacker Yama Tough and a persona invented by law enforcement officials to attempt to get the hacker …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

Anonymous Defaces U.S Government Consumer and FTC Websites Over ACTA with Scathing Remarks, Video

Anonymous Threatens To Shut Down the Internet; the FBI Could Darken the Cloud Instead March 8

TradeHill Suspends Bitcoin Trading, Refunds Customers

Anonymous Busy Over Weekend Attacking CIA, Mexico, Greece, Alabama DHS Websites

Steam: Hackers Accessed Backup Copy of Database in November 2011

Syrian Officials Discover When They Choose Bad Passwords, Anonymous Will Get In

Video Game Developer Double Fine Raises $1 Million Overnight with Kickstarter

Google Wallet Security Woes Don’t Reflect Poorly on NFC or Mobility

Symantec Code Leak Happens Where Sidewalk Ends in Law Enforcement Sting Attempt

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