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

Bitcoin Sneaks Into Popular TV Drama via The Good Wife

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

It’s always a good sign when a particular underground innovation finds its way into popular media—and although I’ve been wondering when it would show up on “ripped from the headlines” Law & Order as some sort of badly designed drama it appeared on CBS’s …

Israel vs. Saudi Arabia Hacks Heating Up as Israeli Hackers Respond In Kind

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Monday, we reported that Saudi Arabian hackers—one under the handle of ox0mar and with the group named Group-xp—hit Israeli financial sector websites and an airline carrier causing both considerable lag but did not take them offline. This came shortly after last week’s …

CloudFlare Develops Anti-SOPA/PROTECT-IP App Just in Time for Blackout

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Tomorrow will be a big day for sites protesting against the “Stop Online Piracy Act” dubbed the “Internet blacklist bill” by opponents and the PROTECT-IP bill. January 18 is the date set by numerous large websites and social media to darken themselves …

We’re Waiting: Hacker Threatened to Release Full Source Code for Norton Antivirus

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Saturday, a hacker going by the handle of Yama Tough threatened via Twitter that they would release the source code of Symantec’s flagship antivirus software product Norton Antivirus on Tuesday. “This coming Tuesday behold the full Norton Antivirus 1,7Gb src, the rest …

Symantec Acquisition of LiveOffice Gives Business a Cloud Booster-Shot

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Monday, anti-virus software vendor Symantec announced their acquisition of LiveOffice, cloud archiving and storage vendor. While being best known for their anti-virus and spam protection software, Symantec has also had a long history of suites for general computer maintenance and providing software …

Cyber-Tensions Between Saudi Arabia and Israel on the Rise as Hackers Hit Stock Exchange and Airline Websites

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Israel is receiving lessons in cyberwarfare as hackers continue to target their corporations and infrastructure—on Monday, hackers slowed (but did not break) the website for the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and El Al Israel Airlines took down their website after hacker, 0xOmar, …

EverQuest 2 Player Base Swells 300% Since Switching to Free-to-Play

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

In an ever-increasing understanding of how people play video games, massively multiplayer online gaming has been seeing a spike in interest since large subscription based games have been exploring the free-to-play model. The most recent in this venture is Sony Online Entertainment’s …

Awe Inspiring History of Bitcoin’s Development as an Unintended Music Video

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

David Perry, a database administrator and the author of Coding In My Sleep, has delivered to the Bitcoin community perhaps one of the most awe inspiring visualizations of Bitcoin’s developmental history. The video he produced has really taken off. “I stumbled across …

MakerBot ‘Replicator’ 3D Printer at CES 2012 Can Make Anything (In Two Colors)

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Earlier this week at the Consumer Electronics Show—and unfortunately not a Star Trek convention—3D printer manufacturer, MakerBot, unveiled its newest amazing product dubbed the “MakerBot Replicator.” With two versions capable of making objects about the size of a loaf of bread (8.9 …

Microsoft Stalls Plans for Web TV Streaming Subscriptions

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

From an exclusive story at Reuters it looks like Microsoft Corp has put subscription plans for broadcast television streaming to their Xbox LIVE platform on hold. Instead of becoming a replacement for cable, Microsoft is focusing on delivering cable programming via Xbox …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

Bitcoin Sneaks Into Popular TV Drama via The Good Wife

We’re Waiting: Hacker Threatened to Release Full Source Code for Norton Antivirus

Cyber-Tensions Between Saudi Arabia and Israel on the Rise as Hackers Hit Stock Exchange and Airline Websites

Awe Inspiring History of Bitcoin’s Development as an Unintended Music Video

MakerBot ‘Replicator’ 3D Printer at CES 2012 Can Make Anything (In Two Colors)

Microsoft Stalls Plans for Web TV Streaming Subscriptions

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