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

Bitcoinica Adds a Little Forex Brokerage to the Bitcoin Ecology

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Imagine the bustle of the crowds as traders hustle all around, jostling shoulders and elbows to get noticed by the man with the clipboard, waving their slips as they yell in the din. It’s not the 1940s on Wall Street anymore and …

Forum User Passwords Possibly Stolen In Bitcointalk.org Bill Cosby Hack

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Yesterday, Bitcoin enthusiast discussion forum Bitcointalk.org announced that an intruder compromised their forum software and may have had access to the password hashes–but the intruder seemed a lot more interested in plastering Bill Cosby all over in a forum prank. The attack …

DigiNotar Breach and Fraudulent Certificates Investigation Reveals Incompetence

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Last week, we at SiliconANGLE reported on a hack that struck at the root of the certificate authority that keeps the web safe came under significant attack. A certificate authority registrar, DigiNotar, lost control of its servers and an attacker became able …

Anonymous Strikes Back: The Texan Sheriff HD Edition

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Members of the hactivist collective, Anonymous, have been busy little chrome rats chewing on the insulation of the walls of the Internet and recently they released a data dump of law enforcement e-mails lining their nest. In a Pastebin release entitled with …

Wyse CEO Tarkan Maner Makes Plans to Disrupt the PC Paradigm

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

John Furrier and Dave Vellante brought Tarkan Maner, CEO of Wyse into theCube at VMworld 2011. and interviewed him about the direction Wyse is taking with their new products and what he sees happening with the PC and services market. Especially with …

Breach Embarrasses Kernel.org, Doesn’t Threaten Linux Security

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

This week brings dread news to the Linux community when many have learned that an unknown intruder managed to breach the fortified walls of Kernel.org—the storage home and distribution center for the Linux kernel. The intruder managed to gain root access to …

Juniper Networks: The Future of Cloud Security Rests Ultimately in Virtualization

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

As more businesses move from enterprise models into the cloud and begin to virtualize more of the network stack, the harsh light of security begins to pool from beneath the doorjamb. High availability networks that use virtual servers and cloud functionality generate …

John W. Thompson Leads Virtual Instruments for Virtualization Total Situational Awareness

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

John W. Thompson, CEO of Virtual Instruments, isn’t any stranger to taking the reins of large corporate edifices as Symantec former CEO and current Chairman of the Board. His new role at Virtual Instruments finds him lording over a company that develops …

Rick Jackson at VMworld 2011: Bringing Confidence and Empowerment into Cloud IT

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Today in theCube, Dave Vellante and John Furrier spoke with Rick Jackson, VMware’s Chief Marketing Officer, about the direction VMware is going with their products and the nature and theme of VMworld 2011 itself. In fact, many people had been wondering at …

Fraudulent Google Certificate Put Iranian Users At Risk for Two Months

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Recently, an Iranian user uncovered a man-in-the-middle attack occurring with some of Google’s own security certificates for domains such as *.google.com. As it appears, some Iranian ISP may be involved in silently intercepting communications by Iranian citizens over the Internet by supplying …

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Latest from Kyt Dotson

Forum User Passwords Possibly Stolen In Bitcointalk.org Bill Cosby Hack

DigiNotar Breach and Fraudulent Certificates Investigation Reveals Incompetence

Anonymous Strikes Back: The Texan Sheriff HD Edition

Breach Embarrasses Kernel.org, Doesn’t Threaten Linux Security

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