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

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

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

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 covering and more VISOR-like) but Project Glass continues …

Massive Credit Card Breach Exposes 1.5 Million Customers

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

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 been “contained” others see this as a shakeup …

Bitcoin Draws the Attention of British Traders

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

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. The news comes via Reuters in an article …

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

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

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, according to a post on Pastebin from February. …

Big Things Planned for Microsoft’s Kinect for Windows 1.5

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

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. Looking at the array of SDK options, the …

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

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

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, no longer works. Over the past six months …

Microsoft Disrupts Major ZeuS Botnet Infrastructure

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

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 the third action that Microsoft has prepped that …

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

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

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. The picture painted by the entertainment industry is …

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

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

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 with services such as Twitter requiring less than …

Bitcoin May Find a Fulfilling Market in Africa

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

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 that reflects this is Africa, where banks are …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from 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

Bitcoin May Find a Fulfilling Market in Africa

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