Kyt Dotson, Author at SiliconANGLE

NASA, Air Force, Harvard Compromised by Hacker Crew ‘The Unknowns’

By Kyt Dotson May 8, 2012

Last month saw a rash of hacks hit a variety of high profile targets including NASA, the U.S. Air Force, the French Ministry of Defense, the European Space Agency, the Bahrain Ministry of Defense,…

Scalify Raises $2 Million for Peer-to-Peer Cloud-Gaming Networking

By Kyt Dotson May 7, 2012

Melbourne-based gaming start-up Scalify is looking to amplify their efforts to bring peer-to-peer networking to the gaming community after an infusion of $2 million in investment from Starfish Ventures. According to an article in…

Video Game Uses the Crowd-Sourced Gaming to Help Doctors Diagnose Malaria

By Kyt Dotson May 7, 2012

Researchers at the University of California are seeking to make gamers the next line of defense in the fight against malaria via a free Internet-based pattern recognition game that has players play “pick the…

The Pirate Bay Experiences Traffic Boost After Block; Youth Look into Privacy via VPN

By Kyt Dotson May 3, 2012

In what can only be expected to be a reflection of the Streisand Effect phenomena—the more you try to hide something on the Internet, the more people will spread it around—the UK High Court’s…

Google: Don’t Force a Merge Between G+ and YouTube for Upvotes

By Kyt Dotson May 2, 2012

It may be a matter of a development mistake or it could be that Google is on the verge of a drop over a very serious precipice: merging G+ and YouTube and forcing users…

Will Cable and Satellite Mean the Death of Free Hulu Internet TV?

By Kyt Dotson May 2, 2012

Dark rumors and accusations seem to be telling a compelling narrative about Hulu—the broadly popular venue for free Internet TV (supported by advertisements)—potentially backing away from offering their media without strings to the pubic…

Flashback Trojan Sought $10,000 Per Day in Google Ad Revenue Fraud

By Kyt Dotson May 1, 2012

According to the security outfit Symantec, the Flashback Trojan discovered to be infecting over 600,000 Mac OSX machines has a variant that may have net the botnet owners potentially up to $10,0000 a day.…

UK High Court Rules That ISPs Must Block The Pirate Bay

By Kyt Dotson Apr 30, 2012

In what would probably be the grand slam of censorship in the UK, the BBC is reporting that the High Court has ordered ISPs to block customer access to The Pirate Bay. Amid the…

PC Gaming Rejoice: Valve Confirms Linux Version of Steam and the Source Engine

By Kyt Dotson Apr 27, 2012

The bloggers over at the Linux blog Phoronix caught up with Valve’s CEO Gabe Newell to ask about his video game distribution service and their intent to port it to the open source Linux…

Cryptic Studios Hack Discovered…From December 2010

By Kyt Dotson Apr 27, 2012

In a statement released just yesterday Cryptic Game Studios—developer of City of Heroes, Champions Online, Star Trek Online, and a few other online game titles—revealed that they discovered that their systems have been hacked…in…

Kyt Dotson

NASA, Air Force, Harvard Compromised by Hacker Crew ‘The Unknowns’

UK High Court Rules That ISPs Must Block The Pirate Bay

PC Gaming Rejoice: Valve Confirms Linux Version of Steam and the Source Engine

Cryptic Studios Hack Discovered…From December 2010

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