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.

Latest from Kyt Dotson

Learning the Lesson of the Kobayashi Maru: Cybersecurity, Thinking Like the Enemy, and Big Data

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

Any time there is something valuable it means that multiple parties want it, be it the Maltese Falcon, state nuclear secrets, proprietary business information, or a database full of usernames and passwords for a popular forum. James Caroland, U.S. Cyber Command, and …

Gmail Accounts Hijacked by ‘State-Sponsored Attackers’ via IE Zero-Day

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

Both Microsoft and Google have been at the press to warn users that attackers are using a new zero-day exploit in Internet Explorer being used to hijack Gmail accounts. The flaw is currently unpatched (fitting any zero-day exploit) and enables an attacker …

TheCube at Dell Storage Forum Examines VMware-Dell Partnership for Virtualization and the Cloud

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

Stu Miniman brought Felipe Payet and Tracy Waller from VMware into theCube at Dell Storage Forum 2012 in Boston, MA to talk about the VMWare-Dell partnership and how that affects the virtualization ecology in the technology sphere. They sat down and spoke …

Blizzard Threatens Diablo III Cheaters With Permanent Ban for Mods, Bots, or Hacks

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

Cheating is a prevalent problem across a multitude of online video games—and it’s well known in Blizzard’s previous titles in the Diablo series especially Diablo II. In an attempt to head off potential cheaters in their new Diablo III product, Blizzard is …

10,000 Twitter Accounts Leaked by LulzSec Reborn via TweetGif

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

The reincarnation of LulzSec—a now disbanded hacker Internet-mayhem group who ruled the cyberseas and media for a portion of last year—has surfaced with a notable leak of Twitter authentication belonging to users who signed up for TweetGif, an animated GIF-sharing application. The …

WWDC 2012: Apple Announces 11-inch MacBook Air, 15-inch MacBook Pro, Intel Ivy Bridge, Retina Display

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

In a bid to expand the market of the ultra-thin laptop, Apple is preparing to release a new version of the MacBook Air, providing for two versions one $999 and one $1099—making both of them extremely economically priced for similar offerings in …

Bitcoincard Puts Cryptocurrency in Your Wallet with a Mycelium Smartcard

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

The technological event horizon to make digital-currency possible (or at least digital-wallet transactions low impact) is coming up fast; we’re seeing it with the push for NFC and other technologies that enable secure transactions between mobile devices. However, there’s also a push …

The March of Password Leaks Goes On Pulling in Last.fm

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

Thursday, music site Last.fm joined a parade of password leaks reported this week on SiliconANGLE and elsewhere including LinkedIn and eHarmony. A message appeared on the site Thursday speaking to the leak, and urging users to change their passwords. Details are sketchy …

QLogic’s Rob Crawford Talks Infrastructure and Innovation at HP Discover 2012

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

Rob Crawford, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales for QLogic, is now an alumnus of theCube so when Stu Miniman of Wikibon brought him in for interview there was a great deal to cover from the past year. He joined the California-based …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

Learning the Lesson of the Kobayashi Maru: Cybersecurity, Thinking Like the Enemy, and Big Data

Gmail Accounts Hijacked by ‘State-Sponsored Attackers’ via IE Zero-Day

Blizzard Threatens Diablo III Cheaters With Permanent Ban for Mods, Bots, or Hacks

10,000 Twitter Accounts Leaked by LulzSec Reborn via TweetGif

WWDC 2012: Apple Announces 11-inch MacBook Air, 15-inch MacBook Pro, Intel Ivy Bridge, Retina Display

Bitcoincard Puts Cryptocurrency in Your Wallet with a Mycelium Smartcard

The March of Password Leaks Goes On Pulling in Last.fm

QLogic’s Rob Crawford Talks Infrastructure and Innovation at HP Discover 2012

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