Kyt Dotson
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I normally write about cybersecurity and the cultural implications of software, technology, and policy on how people approach their own security—succeed or fail. However, running a business securely is more than just properly vetting employees, putting locks on doors, and battening down …
Breaking Analysis: Anonymous Stings Israel With Website Outages Over IDF Operation in Gaza
The Israeli government has reported no less than 44 million hacking attempts against security, governmental, and financial websites over the weekend as violence in the Gaza strip continues to escalate. Many of these attacks could be attributed to Anonymous, the hacktivist collective, …
WordPress.com Announces Acceptance of Bitcoins as Payment for Upgrades/Services
The commercial service site that hosts WordPress installations for bloggers has recently announced that they will begin accepting Bitcoin as payment for services and upgrades. For most people, a free blog on WordPress.com is sufficient, but to receive access to many plugins, …
Extreme Reality Brings Gesture Recognition to Samsung Series 5 and 7 All-In-One PCs
Today, Extreme Reality has announced that they will be bringing their gesture recognition technology to Samsung Series 5 and Series 7 Windows 8 All-in-One (AIO) PCs. As the developer of Extreme Motion and Extreme UI this is one of the preeminent solutions …
HTML5 for Enterprise Now On Your Doorstep from Kendo UI and Telerik
Telerik keeps making news in mobile software development, especially for operations who routinely must produce software that will display across different devices from smartphones to tablets. Under the product Kendo UI we’ve seen that it’s possible to provide a library that permits …
Reddit Considering Bitcoin for Subscription Model Says CEO Wong
Amidst the various markets that Bitcoin could have a lot of bite, online services are still the best bet and the highly democratized social forum of Reddit might just become one of them, according to news from a discussion thread there. As …
The Eyes Have It at the Lund’s Prototype Digital Learning Classroom
Humanities Lab of Lund University in Sweden is working on groundbreaking educational research using eye tracking technology to enhance learning in collaboration with researchers from the University of Tübingen/Germany. The prototype classroom will use the eye tracking technology along with displays and …
Kendo UI Developer Survey Says HTML5 Adoption Is Right On Track
Kendo UI, a division of Telerik that offers a comprehensive framework for building JavaScript and HTML5 websites and mobile apps, announced the results of the survey they conducted among 4,000 respondents which consisted of developers for PHP, Java, Ruby, .NET, Node, and …
Remember, Remember, the 5th of November—Anonymous Raises the Flag
Anyone who follows the activity of everybody’s favorite Internet boogeyman Anonymous will notice that a prominent element of their graphics happens to be the Guy Fawkes mask from the graphic novel and movie V for Vendetta. As a result, it should be …
A Big Data Rescue Mission for Sandy Storm Survivors
The East coast has been drenched with “Frakenstorm” Hurricane Sandy and once again this highlights how social media and Big Data come to the front with any large scale human event—we’ve seen Big Data put to use for disaster prediction and prevention, …