Kyt Dotson, Author at SiliconANGLE

Anonymous Bleeding Oil Companies With Repeated Leaks

By Kyt Dotson Jul 23, 2012

It looks like the hactivist collective Anonymous has been targeting Big Oil by hitting Shell, Exxon, BP and two Russian firms—Gazprom and Rosneft—in what appears to be part of a protest against a form…

Researchers Obliterate Grum Botnet, E-mail Inboxes Everywhere Rejoice

By Kyt Dotson Jul 20, 2012

In another sweeping takedown of yet-another-botnet run by Internet cybercriminals, researchers over at the security firm FireEye are announcing that they have dismantled the Grum botnet’s command and control servers. As of Wednesday, the…

Spam Sent to Dropbox E-mail Addresses Leads to Speculation About Breach

By Kyt Dotson Jul 19, 2012

An odd spike in spam lead some users of Dropbox to wonder if the service had suffered a breach. The incident occurred when users of the cloud-locker service discovered that e-mail addresses they had…

OUYA Might Find Synergy with Services Such as Amazon’s Game Connect

By Kyt Dotson Jul 18, 2012

The newly minted Android-based gaming console OUYA (recently upgraded to all caps and pronounced “oh-yeah” by many) has been catapulted into the public consciousness via an overwhelmingly supported Kickstarter campaign and brings a free-to-play…

Minecraft Hack Exposes the Fragility of Online Identity (But Not Usernames or Passwords)

By Kyt Dotson Jul 17, 2012

Recently, the servers of Mojang’s extremely popular social video game Minecraft suffered an exploit that allowed users to log in as anyone they desired. Unlike the usual news of hacks, this didn’t mean that anyone gained…

Bitcoinica Can’t Catch a Break: Recent Breach Hemorrhages 40,000 BTC

By Kyt Dotson Jul 16, 2012

In what appears to be an extension of security issues resulting from a previous breach in May, Bitcoinica—a Bitcoin Forex housing a lot of funds—had their MtGox account compromised and over ฿40,000 BTC were…

Facebook Security Checkpoint a Fair but Currently Flawed Idea

By Kyt Dotson Jul 13, 2012

Not many months ago Facebook partnered with antivirus vendors to come up with a plan for aiding their customers in the ever ongoing fight against malware and mere days ago the Malware Checkpoint for…

Dropped USB Sticks as a Malware Vector: DSM Does Cybersecurity Right

By Kyt Dotson Jul 12, 2012

The reason that some malware is called a Trojan is a play on the Trojan horse from the mythology about the ancient Greek siege of the city of Troy. Most Trojans are actually software…

Paypal’s Abandonment of Major Cyberlockers May Become Bitcoin’s Big Win

By Kyt Dotson Jul 11, 2012

Paypal is now well known for a sort of sanctimonious attitude towards sites that they feel will damage their ability to make money and now that cyberlockers are under fire from copyright conglomerates such…

Populating the World with Virtual People: How Augmented Reality Can Amplify Us

By Kyt Dotson Jul 10, 2012

We essentially have wearable computers, an Android smartphone of sufficient power can do a great deal of computing and if it can’t succeed all on its own it can have a cloud-computer do the…

Kyt Dotson

Anonymous Bleeding Oil Companies With Repeated Leaks

Researchers Obliterate Grum Botnet, E-mail Inboxes Everywhere Rejoice

Spam Sent to Dropbox E-mail Addresses Leads to Speculation About Breach

OUYA Might Find Synergy with Services Such as Amazon’s Game Connect

Minecraft Hack Exposes the Fragility of Online Identity (But Not Usernames or Passwords)

Bitcoinica Can’t Catch a Break: Recent Breach Hemorrhages 40,000 BTC

Dropped USB Sticks as a Malware Vector: DSM Does Cybersecurity Right

Paypal’s Abandonment of Major Cyberlockers May Become Bitcoin’s Big Win

Populating the World with Virtual People: How Augmented Reality Can Amplify Us

LATEST FROM THECUBE

UPCOMING CUBE EVENTS

RECENT CUBE EVENTS

Supermicro Open Storage Summit 2026

Black Hat USA 2026

GraphTalk 2026

AMD Advancing AI 2026

RAISE Summit 2026

SIGN IN

OR

New User? SIGN UP

Join us

SIGN UP

Bio

Ethics statement

Contact us

Partner with us

Contact us

Guest inquiry