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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EFF Ditches Bitcoin as Alternative Donation Currency Due to Legal Insecurities

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

After being one of the most interesting adopters of Bitcoin, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has decided to stop taking donations in the cryptocurrency and flush current holdings. In their statement, the EFF stated that they will be pouring their accumulated (and …

Anonymous Disrupts Over 51 Malaysian Government Websites

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

As there’s been a huge increase in media coverage of hacker activity and cyberwarfare across the world, we’re starting to see more major news outlets describe what happens when entire countries get targeted. Fifty-one Malaysian government controlled websites suffered hacks last week …

Microsoft Releases Kinect SDK for Windows 7, Let the Magic Happen

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

With the recent presentation at E3, Kinect is slowly making its debut into popular game franchises (like Mass Effect) beyond its original gimmick game appearances and Microsoft shows little chance of slowing down in getting it adopted by everyone. To this extent, …

LulzSec Dumps Cargo of 62k Logins, 12k of them Belong to WriterSpace.com Users

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

If you are concerned your information has been released in one of the recent LulzSec data dumps, Gizmodo.com has a leak checker available. Go check there. A boatload of ill-gotten e-mail addresses and passwords found itself dropped off at a public port …

Hacker Group LulzSec Downs CIA.gov Website, IT Security Community Rolls Their Eyes

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Yesterday, the malicious Internet prankster group LulzSec directed a heavy salvo of distributed denial of service attacks at cia.gov—the public facing front for the United States Central Intelligence Bureau. As DDoS attacks are somewhat unsophisticated brute-force attempts to shut down a website, …

Big Data and the Semantic Web: A Synergy of Infrastructure and Language

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Edd Dumbill at O’Reilly Radar asks an interesting question pertaining to the relationship between Big Data and the semantic web: “Big data and the semantic web: At war, indifferent, or intimately connected?” The answer is complex and interesting, and it involves a …

LulzSec Switches Gears with Titanic Takeover Tuesday and Distributed Denial of Service Attacks

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Making use of website exploits to do hacking against websites took a back seat Tuesday for LulzSec—a group of malicious Internet hackers dubbed ‘pranksters’ by much of the media—for the use of a botnet for random DDoS attacks against various gaming industry …

Xbox LIVE Integration with Windows 8, ‘Pervasive’ Across Devices Says Microsoft

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

With E3 just a few days back down the road, we’re getting buried in further Microsoft revelations, especially those pertaining to Xbox LIVE. What’s been unexpected is that there would be a connection to the eventual release of Microsoft’s next generation operating …

LulzSec Continues Headline Grabbing Hacks with U.S. Senate Website and Bethesda Softworks

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

In what is a flurry of activity certainly leading towards some sort of crash-and-burn, now infamous hacker group LulzSec had a very busy day yesterday. First, they made threats and hints all day about hacking the databases of video game publisher Bethesda …

11.3m Player Deaths in Just Cause 2 Visualized as Point Cloud

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Data visualization is the vehicle by which Big Data can be humanized, or at least re-rendered in a format that can be instantly digested by our powerful pattern recognition modules built deep in our brains. In fact, our brains are evolved to …

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Latest from Kyt Dotson

EFF Ditches Bitcoin as Alternative Donation Currency Due to Legal Insecurities

Anonymous Disrupts Over 51 Malaysian Government Websites

LulzSec Dumps Cargo of 62k Logins, 12k of them Belong to WriterSpace.com Users

Hacker Group LulzSec Downs CIA.gov Website, IT Security Community Rolls Their Eyes

LulzSec Switches Gears with Titanic Takeover Tuesday and Distributed Denial of Service Attacks

Xbox LIVE Integration with Windows 8, ‘Pervasive’ Across Devices Says Microsoft

LulzSec Continues Headline Grabbing Hacks with U.S. Senate Website and Bethesda Softworks

11.3m Player Deaths in Just Cause 2 Visualized as Point Cloud

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