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 Value Falling as ExchB Exchange Shutters its Doors and Windows

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Yesterday, Oct 16, 2011, ExchB officially stopped all transactions and closed up shop. The exchange bills itself as “the 1st US Bitcoin Exchange” and now they’ll take that title to the exchange grave with them as they lock their virtual doors for …

Red Card! Xbox LIVE Users Targeted by Soccer Fan Hacker

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Over the past month a large number of reports of hacked Xbox LIVE accounts have been flowing to a reporter at Ars Technica and the pattern emerging seems a bit specific: the hacker purchases FIFA Soccer 11 or 12 accompanied with a …

Dennis Ritchie RIP: Computer Science Pioneer and Father of the C Programming Language

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Dennis Ritchie, the inventor of the programming language C and the co-inventor of the UNIX operating system has shuffled off this mortal coil. His contributions to contemporary computing are so far reaching that his work has branched into almost every conceivable human …

Did Mafia Wars Bring Down Air Force Unmanned Drone Operations?

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

The computer virus that has poxed the United States Air Force drone fleet appears to be a type routinely used to steal credentials from players who play Mafia Wars online. According to unofficial reports, drone command caught an Internet cold. The USAF …

RSA Blames “Nation State” and Tag-Team Hackers for Ides of March SecurID Breach

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

In March, RSA suffered a cyberattack that compromised their SecurID platform and led to a recall and increased paranoia among their defense contractor customers. Yesterday at a press conference an RSA spokesman mentioned that they believe it was the act of two …

Blizzard to Experiment with Real-Money for Gold Scheme in WoW via Tradable In-Game Pet

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Most of the virtual items for sale in Blizzard’s überpopular massively multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG) World of Warcraft bind directly to users’ accounts—meaning that once bought they cannot be traded to other players. Recently, Blizzard announced a new vanity pet …

Governor of California Crushes Bill Banning Warrantless Cell Phone Searches

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Gov. Jerry Brown of California has vetoed a bill that would have required police officers to obtain a warrant before searching arrestees’ smartphones. The bill would have worked to prevent the practice of law enforcement of opening up a person’s cell phone, …

NYSE Unaffected by Anonymous Attack; Sabu of LulzSec ‘We still have Sun e-mails’

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

October 4, we ran an article about how the hacktivist collective Anonymous began rumbling that it would proceed with an attack against the New York Stock Exchange in an act of solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street (#OWS) movement. That attack took …

The Evolving Place of Pastebin.com in Social Discourse, From LulzSec to Occupy Wall Street

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

The previous decade showed us how the Internet and social media change the face of protests. In fact, a leaderless collective of interested parties emerged from forums calling themselves Anonymous to form a surprisingly large mass protest against Scientology. We’ve seen social …

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Latest from Kyt Dotson

Bitcoin Value Falling as ExchB Exchange Shutters its Doors and Windows

Red Card! Xbox LIVE Users Targeted by Soccer Fan Hacker

Dennis Ritchie RIP: Computer Science Pioneer and Father of the C Programming Language

Did Mafia Wars Bring Down Air Force Unmanned Drone Operations?

RSA Blames “Nation State” and Tag-Team Hackers for Ides of March SecurID Breach

Blizzard to Experiment with Real-Money for Gold Scheme in WoW via Tradable In-Game Pet

NYSE Unaffected by Anonymous Attack; Sabu of LulzSec ‘We still have Sun e-mails’

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