Kyt Dotson, Author at SiliconANGLE

Bitcoin May Find a Fulfilling Market in Africa

By Kyt Dotson Mar 22, 2012

As Internet technology continues to make deeper inroads into regions that lack infrastructure to support a strong banking system, very quickly virtual currencies can become more successful than banks. One region of the world…

The Anonymous Impact: Hacktivism in 2011 Exceeded Criminal Breaches

By Kyt Dotson Mar 22, 2012

While 2011 wasn’t the beginning of hacktivism, it was when the global media caught fire with attention for the phenomenon—and, according to a report [PDF link] released by American mobile company Verizon, 2011 is…

How Can We Use Big Data to Enable Better Cybersecurity?

By Kyt Dotson Mar 21, 2012

The path to 2011 has been filled with numerous new security threats—and some old ones that have learned new tricks—as the Internet continues to expand, computers get faster, storage gets smarter, and connectivity increases…

8,000 Student E-mails Leaked in Loan Company Security Blunder

By Kyt Dotson Mar 21, 2012

It’s not always the hackers that you need to worry about: ordinary human error can do just as much damage. This is the moral of a story coming out of England from a student…

The Power of Augmented Reality and Gamification to Get Better Pictures

By Kyt Dotson Mar 20, 2012

Nowadays smartphones and devices with cameras embedded are ubiquitous and users take pictures of almost everything—they snap shots of their everyday life, buildings, and landmarks—and this can be extremely useful for the big data…

Duqu Mystery Programming Language Solved

By Kyt Dotson Mar 20, 2012

It’s been a strange road to understanding the Trojan-worm hybrid malware Duqu that started spreading numerous spybots and rootkits across the Internet last year. It was even caught exploiting an unknown bug in Microsoft…

Social Payment Startup Venmo Adds Instant Bank Payments to Their Arsenal

By Kyt Dotson Mar 19, 2012

The ability to use your smartphone as a wallet is an extremely useful addition to mobility and even helps reduce the number of cards we have to carry and helps alleviate the number of…

Microsoft Demonstrates “Beamatron” Augmented Reality via Kinect-Projector Duo

By Kyt Dotson Mar 16, 2012

As a device that “sees” the world, Microsoft’s Kinect peripheral has been providing a lot of potential methods for delivering augmented reality. In this particular demo, Andy Wilson from Microsoft Research shows off the…

Malware Infiltrating Anonymous Not So Different from Any Other Trojan Trickery

By Kyt Dotson Mar 15, 2012

Wednesday, an operating system designed around a flavor of Linux was released by an apparent cell of Anonymous accordingly loaded with anonymity tools, hacking suites, and privacy software—but it also potentially came with a…

Creators of Wizard101 to the 2012 Keynote Digital Kids Conference in April

By Kyt Dotson Mar 15, 2012

The massively-multiplayer online (MMO) gaming industry has proven itself to be a powerful vector for pulling people together to play video games and for the enterprise to capably make money. Families have always been…

Kyt Dotson

Bitcoin May Find a Fulfilling Market in Africa

The Anonymous Impact: Hacktivism in 2011 Exceeded Criminal Breaches

How Can We Use Big Data to Enable Better Cybersecurity?

8,000 Student E-mails Leaked in Loan Company Security Blunder

Duqu Mystery Programming Language Solved

Microsoft Demonstrates “Beamatron” Augmented Reality via Kinect-Projector Duo

Malware Infiltrating Anonymous Not So Different from Any Other Trojan Trickery

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