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 0.4.0 Will Secure Your Wallet With Native Encrpytion

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

This major release to the Bitcoin client hit the digital stacks September 23, 2011 and it includes a long-awaited security feature: encrypted wallets. Of late, users of the cryptocurrency have suffered increased attempts by outside parties to get at the wallets of …

FBI Arrests of Suspected LulzSec, Anonymous Hackers Sweep the U.S.

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

News and speculation have been all a twitter this morning with the revelation that the FBI has arrested two alleged members of the group LulzSec and the hacktivist collective Anonymous on Thursday morning in Tempe, Arizona and San Francisco, California. Court documents …

Is that Bear a Kinect Controller or Are You Just Happy to See Me?

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Anyone who hasn’t experienced it yet should go to Google Maps, find a local mall with a Build-a-Bear Workshop and go make a bear. Sure, the stuffed little adorables can be a little bit on the expensive side, but it’s an experience …

Xbox Leads the Personal Cloud to the Living Room with Comcast Cable

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Even two years ago, Microsoft may have realized that videogame consoles are a brilliant stalking horse for bringing influence into the living room. With the set-top-box wars heating up, and the fact that videogame consoles often outnumber even VCRs and DVRs in …

Bitcoinica Growing Pains Result in Data Errors

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Last week, I reported on an emerging trading platform for Bitcoin, Bitcoinica, that presented itself as a Forex service and did so without trading any bitcoins with customers. The Bitcoin service runs in the cloud and has a lot of interesting elements …

Japanese Defense Contractor Mitsubishi Heavy Shakes Virus Infection

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

The United States defense contractor community aren’t the only ones suffering under the yolk of cyberattacks—as seen now that Mitsubishi Heavy, Japan’s largest defense contractor, has discovered a multitude of their computers infected with viruses. Mitsubishi Heavy builds submarines, components for nuclear …

Sony Dodges Behind Updated EULA to Avoid Responsibility for Future PSN Security Breaches

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

In what feels like a turnaround in taking responsibility, Sony has updated their click-wrap End User License Agreement (EULA, or in this case also the Terms of Service orTOS) for people who use the PlayStation Network that will force those agree into …

U.S., Australia Tie the Knot with Cyber Mutual Defense Treaty

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

The United States and Australia have been close partners for almost 60 years when it comes to warfare since the day they signed into a mutual defense alliance, which now will be extended to include cyberspace as well. The treaty from 60 …

Windows 8 Will Bundle Native Antivirus, Symantec and McAfee Scream in Horror

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

It’s big news for the Microsoft Windows community that native antivirus is going to come pre-installed for out-of-the-box operating systems. Worldwide, Windows machines account for a significant portion of all machines 0wn3ed by various worms and viruses that generate zombies for botnets; …

An Ugly Week for Certificate Authorities: DigiNotar, GlobalSign, and ComodoHacker Collide

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Certificate Authorities (CAs) make up the backbone of the web of trust for credit card transactions and secure communications between web browsers and web sites. Without this “web of trust” intact, people surfing the web cannot really trust that their credentials, confidential …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

Bitcoin 0.4.0 Will Secure Your Wallet With Native Encrpytion

FBI Arrests of Suspected LulzSec, Anonymous Hackers Sweep the U.S.

Is that Bear a Kinect Controller or Are You Just Happy to See Me?

Japanese Defense Contractor Mitsubishi Heavy Shakes Virus Infection

Sony Dodges Behind Updated EULA to Avoid Responsibility for Future PSN Security Breaches

U.S., Australia Tie the Knot with Cyber Mutual Defense Treaty

Windows 8 Will Bundle Native Antivirus, Symantec and McAfee Scream in Horror

An Ugly Week for Certificate Authorities: DigiNotar, GlobalSign, and ComodoHacker Collide

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