Kyt Dotson, Author at SiliconANGLE

SOPA and PROTECTIP Grumble in the Grave: Let’s Salt and Burn the Bones

By Kyt Dotson Apr 6, 2012

It looks like in an almost zombie film action, SOPA and PROTECTIP may be lurching back from the dead—and like all good zombies, it’s out for brains: storage and cloud will be the first…

The Future’s So Bright I Gotta Wear Google Glasses: 5 Possible Innovations

By Kyt Dotson Apr 5, 2012

By now, almost everyone watching Google—and the Internet—will be aware of the first prototype for the search giant’s sci-fi project X augmented reality glasses. They’ve changed somewhat from our first expectations (a bit less…

Massive Credit Card Breach Exposes 1.5 Million Customers

By Kyt Dotson Apr 3, 2012

Monday, Atlanta-based Global Payments disclosed that hackers accessed their systems and stole credit and debit card account information for almost 1.5 million customers. Although spokespeople form their outfit have been claiming the event has…

Bitcoin Draws the Attention of British Traders

By Kyt Dotson Apr 2, 2012

Bitcoin is making the news again after British traders have gotten wind of the speculative potential of the currency and began to try their hand at buying into it like any other commodity market.…

Tomorrow: Anonymous Threatens to Blackout the Internet on March 31st

By Kyt Dotson Mar 30, 2012

From the Internet’s heart, Anonymous stabs at thee. As we all know the hacktivist collective Anonymous released a threat to darken the Internet on March 31st by attacking the Domain Name Service root servers,…

Big Things Planned for Microsoft’s Kinect for Windows 1.5

By Kyt Dotson Mar 29, 2012

May 2012 will see the release of a new version of the Kinect software for Windows and this week Microsoft’s Craig Eisler published a sneak peek into what we can expect from this update.…

Fresh Back from the Dead Kelihos Botnet Returned to the Grave (Again)

By Kyt Dotson Mar 28, 2012

With the opportunity and profit that can be had from running a fraud or spam botnet, it’s really hard to put these things down—even shooting them in the head, like a traditional movie zombie,…

Microsoft Disrupts Major ZeuS Botnet Infrastructure

By Kyt Dotson Mar 27, 2012

Last Friday saw a months-long Microsoft-led operation come to fruition with the closure of the ZeuS and SpyEye Trojan botnet ending with the coordinated seizure of command-and-control servers across the United States. This makes…

US Military Members Had More than 15,600 Accounts on MegaUpload

By Kyt Dotson Mar 26, 2012

Megaupload proved to be an astoundingly useful resource for many people and fell quickly when they caught up in a feud with the big media industry in the form of the MPAA and RIAA.…

Data Scientist Hilary Mason Speaks about Bit.ly’s Dragoneye and Real Time Social Data

By Kyt Dotson Mar 26, 2012

Bit.ly is a URL shortener best known for living in a niche alongside such powerful contenders as Tinyurl, Google’s variant, and many others—the debate over the use of URL shorteners continues to be heated—but…

Kyt Dotson

The Future’s So Bright I Gotta Wear Google Glasses: 5 Possible Innovations

Massive Credit Card Breach Exposes 1.5 Million Customers

Bitcoin Draws the Attention of British Traders

Tomorrow: Anonymous Threatens to Blackout the Internet on March 31st

Big Things Planned for Microsoft’s Kinect for Windows 1.5

Fresh Back from the Dead Kelihos Botnet Returned to the Grave (Again)

Microsoft Disrupts Major ZeuS Botnet Infrastructure

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