Kyt Dotson, Author at SiliconANGLE

US Files for Extradition of Megaupload Suspects at Last Minute

By Kyt Dotson Mar 5, 2012

Just when you thought the Megaupload saga has reached a fever pitch and couldn’t climb any further up drama mountain, US authorities waited until the eleventh-hour to file extradition papers on the suspects in…

CloudFlare Speaks Out About Their Experience Hosting LulzSec

By Kyt Dotson Mar 2, 2012

“You have my permission. — Jack Sparrow” That’s what a representative of LulzSec told CloudFlare CEO Matthew Prince when he asked permission to tell the tale of rough water and a siege on the…

Linode Breach Leads to Massive Heist of 46,000 BTC from Bitcoinica, Faucet

By Kyt Dotson Mar 2, 2012

Numerous media sources are reporting now on a massive heist of Bitcoin wallets as the result of the hack of the cloud-hosting provider Linode. Last night, Ars Technica was able to confirm that over…

Game Dev Starbreeze Reaches Out to Pirates, Offers Jobs

By Kyt Dotson Mar 1, 2012

Alongside the release of the Xbox 360 version of EA’s Syndicate came the expected releases from the warez Scene. With each upcoming release of a game, the warez community does its best to beat…

Pervasive Software DataRush Will Make Hadoop “Faster and Easier”

By Kyt Dotson Feb 29, 2012

Mike Hoskins, CTO, EVP Pervasive Software, says that in a nutshell Pervasive is making Hadoop “faster and easier.” It’s all about making big data processing and data mining both faster and easier. While it’s…

Microsoft’s Windows Azure Experiences Outage

By Kyt Dotson Feb 29, 2012

Reports of Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud platform having a bad day apparently cannot be exaggerated enough—customers are reporting that the system has been all-but-entirely offline for hours. According to The Register, the problems began…

Marc Smith from Social Media Research Foundation Speaks on Big Data

By Kyt Dotson Feb 28, 2012

Social media gathers people together into communities and as people interact they produce and spin off tremendous amounts of data. That data is so considerable and detailed that they only way to approach it…

Kinect-enabled Shopping Cart May Aid Shoppers at Whole Foods

By Kyt Dotson Feb 28, 2012

Now that Microsoft has released their development kit that brings Kinect software to Windows, many venues are beginning to look for applications for the video game sensor. Right now, Whole Foods is looking into…

ZeuS Trojan Botnet Learns a New Trick: Peer-to-Peer

By Kyt Dotson Feb 27, 2012

In what seems to be the next evolution of malware, the Zeusbot/SpyEye Trojan network has been discovered in the wild that doesn’t rely on a centralized command-and-control server—instead, the new variants use a peer-to-peer…

The Pirate Scene Nimbly Adopts New x264 Video Codec

By Kyt Dotson Feb 26, 2012

Where it might take giant corporations years to come to a conclusion on a major standards change, pirates from the video scene lead to an implementation in a matter of days, a source tells…

Kyt Dotson

US Files for Extradition of Megaupload Suspects at Last Minute

Linode Breach Leads to Massive Heist of 46,000 BTC from Bitcoinica, Faucet

Game Dev Starbreeze Reaches Out to Pirates, Offers Jobs

Pervasive Software DataRush Will Make Hadoop “Faster and Easier”

Kinect-enabled Shopping Cart May Aid Shoppers at Whole Foods

ZeuS Trojan Botnet Learns a New Trick: Peer-to-Peer

The Pirate Scene Nimbly Adopts New x264 Video Codec

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