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

100 Million Chinese Usernames, Passwords Leaked in Massive Hack Heist

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

China has been in the news recently being blamed for being the origin of various hacking attacks against the rest of the globe, but last week brings news of Chinese citizens themselves being targeted by hackers. A massive leak of 100 million …

Facebook Offers Bug Bounty Hunters the White Hat Credit Card

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

It’s not uncommon for large corporations to put bounties on bugs in their software and to dole out hefty amounts of cash to security researchers who uncover them and then show the developer how to fix the problem. So when I read …

Security Trends of 2011: The Shadow of Anonymous and the Year of the Internet Hactivist

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Every time there is a door, you need a lock because there’s a bad guy that wants to get in and the Internet is no different. Corporations generally sit on the leading edge of new technology and in this case cybersecurity with …

Google+ Surpasses 62 Million Users as Growth Continues to Accelerate

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

The advent of Google’s reply to social media outlets such as Facebook and Twitter, G+ has done extremely well since its launch. In fact, Paul Allen, founder of Ancestry.com who dubs himself the “unofficial statistician of G+” posted his observations on the …

Just in time for Christmas, Cloud Gaming Service OnLive Adds Xperia PLAY Support

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

If you happen to own one of these phones, you’re probably already an avid gamer so this little tidbit will probably fill your stockings with joy. Now a long-time pioneer of cloud-based gaming, OnLive announced on Thursday that they’re updating their free …

Anonymous Hacks U.S. Security Think Tank Stratfor’s Christmas Stockings

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Members of the Anonymous hactivist collective have come forward to claim that they raided U.S.-based security think tank Stratfor and stole the presents from beneath their Christmas tree—in the form of a database containing thousands of credit card numbers and other personal …

Rift Developer Trion Worlds Account Database Compromised

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Last night, a carefully-worded e-mail went out to subscribers of Trion World’s massively multiplayer online role playing game, Rift announcing that the game developer’s user accounts had been compromised by hackers. The breadth and width of the breach is not currently known …

Microsoft Brings “Edutainment” to the Next Level with Sesame Street, Kinect Partnership

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

No doubt, Xbox has been changing the way that we view television by bringing Internet TV into the living room; but there’s still more avenues for Microsoft to tap with the universally plastic interactivity of the Kinect. The television show, Sesame Street …

Bitcoin vs. Western Union: It’s About Strength in Numbers

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

We’ve been following the ups and downs of Bitcoin now for quite some time. As a cryptocurrency it made its first steps into the light but timidly; for years the currency nestled down in the single-digit cents USD but with some media …

Chinese Hackers Commando Exfiltrate U.S. Chamber of Commerce Data

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Lots of attention has been directed at hackers possibly working out of China and the report of a year-old breach of the U.S. government connected to the country is only fanning the flames of that attention. The Wall Street Journal is reporting …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

100 Million Chinese Usernames, Passwords Leaked in Massive Hack Heist

Facebook Offers Bug Bounty Hunters the White Hat Credit Card

Security Trends of 2011: The Shadow of Anonymous and the Year of the Internet Hactivist

Anonymous Hacks U.S. Security Think Tank Stratfor’s Christmas Stockings

Microsoft Brings “Edutainment” to the Next Level with Sesame Street, Kinect Partnership

Bitcoin vs. Western Union: It’s About Strength in Numbers

Chinese Hackers Commando Exfiltrate U.S. Chamber of Commerce Data

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