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.

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November Fifth Looms Large With Anonymous Plot vs. Fox News, Banks

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

“Remember, remember the fifth of November, the gunpowder, treason and plot.” Perhaps we should update that old Guy Fawke’s nursery rhyme greatly popularized by Alan Moore’s V for Vendetta to mention the “Anonymous cyberattack and plot.” The hactivist collective developed a meme …

Royal Society Journal Archive Lifts 60,000 Historical Scientific Articles into the Cloud

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

The scientific legacy of the world-famous historical journal archive will be available to the public—fully searchable and online—announced The Royal Society, the world’s oldest scientific publisher. The archive’s online-access portion will even include the first-ever peer-reviewed scientific journal: the first edition of …

Zynga Girds for Sudden Death with IPO Coming One Week Before Thanksgiving

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Everyone’s favorite social media gaming giant, Zynga Inc., will be positioning themselves to become a publicly traded company a week before the Thanksgiving holiday on November 24th, 2011. Breaking news according to a Reuters article, citing two sources who claim caution that the plans …

Hackers Absconded with Mitsubishi Heavy Warplane, Nuke Plant Data

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

A leading daily newspaper in Japan is running an article right now that it’s been discovered that hackers stole plans for nuclear power plant design and safety plans, as well as fighter jet plans, from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. Computers. Sources told …

Bitcoin is Not Dead (Again) Part II

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

For those who have been reading my coverage of the cryptocurrency Bitcoin, you might have noticed that there isn’t actually a “Bitcoin is Not Dead Part I.” This is because in spite of people repeatedly calling out the currency as having failed …

Anonymous #OpDarknet Burns Down Pedophile Websites and Publishes Usernames

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

The weekend brings us news of Anonymous grabbing their masks, torches, and pitchforks and raiding a series of privacy-hardened darknet websites. An Anonymous hactivist cell is claiming responsibility for taking down more than 40 child-pornography websites and releasing the login information for …

Virtual BlizzCon 2011 for $40: The Price of Eyeballs-Only Admittance

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Conventioneering is a big deal for fans of popular culture media, although while comics really take the cake with ComicCon and Anime Expo, video games aren’t far behind with E3, PAX, and BlizzCon. The current hullaballoo centers around the upcoming BlizzCon 2011 …

NSA Helps Expedite Hardened Android Kernel for “Classified” Smartphones

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

There’s been a lot of movement around Google’s Android mobile phone platform recently, especially involving security and its usefulness in classified sectors such as government, healthcare, and defense. For a while now, RIM’s BlackBerry has shored up much of these operations by …

“Take This Lollipop” Puts the Fear of Social Media Sharing Into You

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

As All Hallow’s Eve quickly approaches at the end of this October month many television networks are already gearing up with fright weeks and horror movie marathons. As for social media, a new Facebook app at takethislollipop.com that asks you to “Take …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

November Fifth Looms Large With Anonymous Plot vs. Fox News, Banks

Royal Society Journal Archive Lifts 60,000 Historical Scientific Articles into the Cloud

Hackers Absconded with Mitsubishi Heavy Warplane, Nuke Plant Data

Bitcoin is Not Dead (Again) Part II

Anonymous #OpDarknet Burns Down Pedophile Websites and Publishes Usernames

NSA Helps Expedite Hardened Android Kernel for “Classified” Smartphones

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