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.

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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 …

The Anonymous Impact: Hacktivism in 2011 Exceeded Criminal Breaches

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

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 also the year that security breaches and data …

How Can We Use Big Data to Enable Better Cybersecurity?

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

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 these threats will continue to evolve and security …

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

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

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 loans facilitator named Student Finance England who inadvertently …

The Power of Augmented Reality and Gamification to Get Better Pictures

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

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 and visualization crowd. After all, everything a tourist …

Duqu Mystery Programming Language Solved

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

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 Word in order to get a beachhead on …

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

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

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 “Beamatron”—a Kinect attached to a motorized pan-tilt armature …

Malware Infiltrating Anonymous Not So Different from Any Other Trojan Trickery

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

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 side of Trojans and malware—and this brought Gizmodo’s …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from 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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