Kyt Dotson, Author at SiliconANGLE

Anonymous Busy Over Weekend Attacking CIA, Mexico, Greece, Alabama DHS Websites

By Kyt Dotson Feb 13, 2012

It’s been an extremely busy weekend for Anonymous hactivist cells who have struck out at government and police websites across the globe. On Friday, the website for the CIA was reported as having gone…

Steam: Hackers Accessed Backup Copy of Database in November 2011

By Kyt Dotson Feb 13, 2012

Over the weekend, Valve’s consumer-class cloud-based game delivery service, Steam had an announcement about the hack that affected their service in November 2011. Gabe Newell, CEO of Steam, told users that while hackers had…

Syrian Officials Discover When They Choose Bad Passwords, Anonymous Will Get In

By Kyt Dotson Feb 10, 2012

As a democratizing agent, the Internet gives access to a multitude of people to a multitude of targets and Syrian President Bashar Assad’s office discovered recently that extremely poor Internet security acts like cracks…

Video Game Developer Double Fine Raises $1 Million Overnight with Kickstarter

By Kyt Dotson Feb 10, 2012

Best known for their hit video game Psychonauts and Brutal Legend starring Jack Black, Double Fine’s founder, Tim Schafer, decided to eschew the convention of pitching an idea to a publisher and decided to…

Google Wallet Security Woes Don’t Reflect Poorly on NFC or Mobility

By Kyt Dotson Feb 9, 2012

With the climb of mobile banking, and now the event horizon for the use of mobile phones as wallets, we’re going to start seeing a great deal more security issues also appear in this…

Massively Multiplayer Online Games as a Model for Business Collaboration

By Kyt Dotson Feb 8, 2012

Video games aren’t just a wave of the future; they’re the current reality for millions of players who take to their consoles and PCs every day. The video game industry is the fastest growing entertainment market…

Symantec Code Leak Happens Where Sidewalk Ends in Law Enforcement Sting Attempt

By Kyt Dotson Feb 7, 2012

The source code stolen from Symantec in 2006 has been waiting in limbo for the past month as part of a hostage negotiation between the hacker Yama Tough and a persona invented by law…

Mobile Malware Hosted on German Server Shows Diversity of Fraud

By Kyt Dotson Feb 7, 2012

The ecology of mobile malware is beginning to take root and grow into a real wilderness as malicious software authors continue to penetrate the market. Fortunately, we have numerous vendors working to protect people’s…

Physibles Come to Town with First Downloaded, 3D Printed Pirate Bay Ship

By Kyt Dotson Feb 6, 2012

The introduction of the Internet, vast amounts of storage, and the ability to copy what we see in high fidelity into an electronic form has exploded the copyright issue wide open on a multitude…

Nintendo Network Shows Console Giant is Finally Serious About Going Online

By Kyt Dotson Feb 3, 2012

While Microsoft and Sony have taken expertly to the realm of Internet connectivity, networks, and DLC content with their consoles, Nintendo still seems to be lagging far behind in getting wired. It looks like…

Kyt Dotson

Anonymous Busy Over Weekend Attacking CIA, Mexico, Greece, Alabama DHS Websites

Steam: Hackers Accessed Backup Copy of Database in November 2011

Syrian Officials Discover When They Choose Bad Passwords, Anonymous Will Get In

Video Game Developer Double Fine Raises $1 Million Overnight with Kickstarter

Google Wallet Security Woes Don’t Reflect Poorly on NFC or Mobility

Symantec Code Leak Happens Where Sidewalk Ends in Law Enforcement Sting Attempt

Mobile Malware Hosted on German Server Shows Diversity of Fraud

Physibles Come to Town with First Downloaded, 3D Printed Pirate Bay Ship

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