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

Cryptic Studios Hack Discovered…From December 2010

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

In a statement released just yesterday Cryptic Game Studios—developer of City of Heroes, Champions Online, Star Trek Online, and a few other online game titles—revealed that they discovered that their systems have been hacked…in December 2010. The delay? The statement enlightens readers …

CISPA Passed by U.S. House of Representatives in Last Minute Vote

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or H.R. 3523, just passed the U.S. House of Representatives after the day-long hearing. Originally expected to be debated on the floor of the House today for a vote tomorrow, the bill’s supporters decided to …

Google Drive Sparks Security Concerns but It’s Not that Different From Other Personal Cloud Offerings

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

The much-anticipated, somewhat anticlimactic launch of Google Drive has finally landed on the digital shores amid the personal cloud market. Like every other cloud-storage service available to individuals such as Dropbox, Box.net, Skydrive, and similar it comes with a privacy policy and …

Vibanko.com Closure Imminent: Move Those Bitcoins Before May 1st

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

It looks like the Bitcoin e-wallet service Vibanko.com by Bitcoin Consultancy—who also run the Bitcoin exchange Intersango —will be shutting down by May 1st 2012. An e-mail from Vibanko CTO Patrick Strateman has been sent out to warn about the imminent closure. A short …

Dropbox and Google Drive Inching into Megaupload “Criminal Conspiracy” Territory

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

The scars left in the cloud-storage industry are still red and angry after the FBI raided and shut down the popular, worldwide cyberlocker service Megaupload in January, so when people started to notice other cyberlockers fall afoul of the same issues, concern …

Video Chat While You Dominate on the PS Vita with Skype April 25th

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

Tomorrow, Skype will appear in the app store for Sony’s magnificent handheld PlayStation Vita—and the device is perfect for it. The Vita has two high quality cameras (forward and rear) and there are both Wi-Fi and 3G models capable of connecting to …

Understanding CISPA: How the Internet Must Take its Privacy Back

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Today legislators in the House of Representatives will vote on HR 3525 aka CISPA amidst a small groundswell of protest from grumbling arenas of the Internet. After watching the climatic battle over SOPA, which also had extremely compelling reasons to be concerned …

IT Security Survey Reveals Concerns About Anonymous, China, and Disclosure Expectations

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

According to a survey plied recently in 2012 by Massachusetts-based Bit9, a company dedicated to providing trust-based security services for malware and breach detection, much of the IT industry is concerned about hactivists. Expectations form IT professionals have Anonymous/ hacktivists” leading the …

Cybersecurity Bill CISPA With Massive Privacy-Flaws Goes to House Vote Next Friday

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

The United States needs an intelligent, thoughtful front on policy involving cybersecurity but the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA or HR 3523) promotes a blunder that would open numerous citizens to untold violations of their privacy—and therefore their security. The …

Anonymous Looks to Obsolete Pastebin for Leaks With AnonPaste

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

The Anonymous hactivist collective has seen a tool arise from amidst its ranks that seeks to replace the use of Pastebin for releasing manifestos, articles of leaked data, and evidence of past exploits (often criminal or sensitive in nature.) This project, called …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

Cryptic Studios Hack Discovered…From December 2010

CISPA Passed by U.S. House of Representatives in Last Minute Vote

Vibanko.com Closure Imminent: Move Those Bitcoins Before May 1st

Understanding CISPA: How the Internet Must Take its Privacy Back

IT Security Survey Reveals Concerns About Anonymous, China, and Disclosure Expectations

Cybersecurity Bill CISPA With Massive Privacy-Flaws Goes to House Vote Next Friday

Anonymous Looks to Obsolete Pastebin for Leaks With AnonPaste

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