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

Anonymous Lashes Out Against BART Over Anti-Protestor Cell Phone Blackout

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

A particularly reactive sub-faction of Anonymous has brought down the hammer on BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) a Sate of California government agency that runs trains and platforms for commuters and tourists in the area. In what the faction is calling #OpBART …

Hackers Deface AOL Web Page, Reveal Sensitive Password Information

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Midafternoon Saturday, AOL’s postmaster.aol.com website was compromised and defaced by a hacker identifying themselves as HodLuM. The hacker modified the front page to display an AOL logo and the message: “AOL S3RV3RZ ROOT3D BY HODLUM LOLZ!” The fun didn’t stop there for …

London Looter Robs the Wrong Computer Geek, Gets Caught by Ill-Gotten Macbook

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

When the London riots broke out, Greg Martin—a self-styled information security evangelist and computer security contractor—didn’t expect that he’d become the victim of a theft. According to his blog, he had returned to his London abode to discover his living space broken …

MtGox Acquires Bitomat.pl as Bid to Restore Confidence in Bitcoin Market

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

In a move to restore confidence in the Bitcoin exchange market, MtGox (owned and operated by Tibanne Co. Ltd.) will be integrating the recently beleaguered Bitomat.pl user database. According to a recent press release, MtGox will migrate the users of the 3rd …

Hackers Threaten BlackBerry Maker over Co-Operation with London Riots Investigation

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Hackers have defaced the BlackBerry blog in a move to intimidate Research In Motion over a statement that the company would lawfully assist the police during the investigation of the London and Tottenham riots. The London riots spread at such an extraordinary rate …

RIM to Co-operate with Metropolitan Police Over BlackBerry Role in London Riots, Looter Networking

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Scotland Yard has vowed to investigate and track down instigators who have been using messaging software and social media in order to post “really inflammatory, inaccurate” messages using the BlackBerry network, Twitter, Facebook, and other social media networks. The manufacturer of BlackBerry, …

Anonymous Defaces Syria’s Ministry of Defense Website, Castigates Current Regime

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

A faction claiming participation in the hactivist collective Anonymous has struck the web pages of the Syrian Ministry of Defense (currently offline) and defaced them with a message about the massacres occurring in that country. According to The Hacker News, the Anonymous …

Bitcoin Ends its Tiptoe Through the Tulips

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Only two months ago the Bitcoin charts saw a massive price inflationary phase as speculation exceeded what the market could bear and the currency peaked June 8 at around $32 per BTC. Now charts have fallen to almost $7 as the June …

Who is Tom Williams? MyBitcoin.com Reappears with Statement Claiming Site Was Hacked

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

The semi-anonymous developers who ran MyBitcoin.com have left a cryptographically signed message on the front page of their site talking about why the site went AWOL last month along with almost $250,000 worth of BTC. Although the message is extremely sparse, contains …

USA PATRIOT Act Still Chafing European Cloud-Adoption with Data Integrity Concerns

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

The Internet and data represent a whole new paradigm for looking at jurisdiction in the Information Age of politics and law. When sovereignty and information collide, often consumers get caught in the middle—this is the case still with a tug-of-war between the …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

Anonymous Lashes Out Against BART Over Anti-Protestor Cell Phone Blackout

Hackers Deface AOL Web Page, Reveal Sensitive Password Information

MtGox Acquires Bitomat.pl as Bid to Restore Confidence in Bitcoin Market

Anonymous Defaces Syria’s Ministry of Defense Website, Castigates Current Regime

Bitcoin Ends its Tiptoe Through the Tulips

Who is Tom Williams? MyBitcoin.com Reappears with Statement Claiming Site Was Hacked

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