Kyt Dotson, Author at SiliconANGLE

What We can Learn from What Netflix Learned from the AWS Failure

By Kyt Dotson Jul 31, 2012

Late in June (last month) the Amazon Web Services suffered a catastrophic series of failures often now referred to as an “AWS Storm” and Netflix found themselves caught up in the middle of it…

Where We Can Go With Augmented Reality: The Spartan Gamified World Revisited in SIGHT

By Kyt Dotson Jul 30, 2012

With Google Glasses and other potential competing products coming into the limelight, the technological consciousness is going to slowly merge with the expectations set for us by science fiction books and futurist designs. To…

MakerBot Gives Life to the Physible and Decade-Lost Nostalgia with the Mixtape Kit

By Kyt Dotson Jul 26, 2012

MakerBot, the builder of a 3D printer-extruder platform for consumers, is mixing it up (almost literally) by releasing a mixtape kit. The kit enables the MakerBot to build a USB flash-player version of the…

Anonymous Readies to Expose 40GB of ISP Data from Australian Providers

By Kyt Dotson Jul 25, 2012

In what would reveal sensitive information about over 600,000 Australian Internet subscribers, a cell of the hactivist collective has revealed that they’re about to expose a leak of 40GB of data taken from an…

Gaming Site Gamigo Hacked, 8 Million User E-mail Addresses and Passwords Leaked

By Kyt Dotson Jul 24, 2012

About four months ago free-to-play publisher and gaming site Gamigo warned users about a potential hacker breach of their databases, and last week that warning came to fruition: over 8 million usernames, e-mail addresses,…

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…

Kyt Dotson

Where We Can Go With Augmented Reality: The Spartan Gamified World Revisited in SIGHT

MakerBot Gives Life to the Physible and Decade-Lost Nostalgia with the Mixtape Kit

Anonymous Readies to Expose 40GB of ISP Data from Australian Providers

Gaming Site Gamigo Hacked, 8 Million User E-mail Addresses and Passwords Leaked

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)

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