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

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

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, and encrypted passwords have been published to the …

Anonymous Bleeding Oil Companies With Repeated Leaks

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

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 of drilling that damages the Artic environment. The …

Researchers Obliterate Grum Botnet, E-mail Inboxes Everywhere Rejoice

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

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 final CnC servers–six located in Ukraine and one …

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

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

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 uniquely made for those accounts received a sudden …

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

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

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 gaming philosophy. Also on the near horizon, Amazon.com …

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

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

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 access to databases of sensitive information or exfiltrated …

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

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

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 stolen along with a loss of almost $40,000 …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

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)

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

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