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

Anonymous Hacks U.S. Security Think Tank Stratfor’s Christmas Stockings

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Members of the Anonymous hactivist collective have come forward to claim that they raided U.S.-based security think tank Stratfor and stole the presents from beneath their Christmas tree—in the form of a database containing thousands of credit card numbers and other personal …

Rift Developer Trion Worlds Account Database Compromised

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Last night, a carefully-worded e-mail went out to subscribers of Trion World’s massively multiplayer online role playing game, Rift announcing that the game developer’s user accounts had been compromised by hackers. The breadth and width of the breach is not currently known …

Microsoft Brings “Edutainment” to the Next Level with Sesame Street, Kinect Partnership

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

No doubt, Xbox has been changing the way that we view television by bringing Internet TV into the living room; but there’s still more avenues for Microsoft to tap with the universally plastic interactivity of the Kinect. The television show, Sesame Street …

Bitcoin vs. Western Union: It’s About Strength in Numbers

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

We’ve been following the ups and downs of Bitcoin now for quite some time. As a cryptocurrency it made its first steps into the light but timidly; for years the currency nestled down in the single-digit cents USD but with some media …

Chinese Hackers Commando Exfiltrate U.S. Chamber of Commerce Data

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Lots of attention has been directed at hackers possibly working out of China and the report of a year-old breach of the U.S. government connected to the country is only fanning the flames of that attention. The Wall Street Journal is reporting …

Kim Jong-il Malware Discovered Roaming the Wild

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

From the that-didn’t-take-long department, the recent death of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il has taken its predicted path through social media and spawned malicious spam that takes advantage of exploits in PDF to infect computers with a Trojan. Researchers at TrendLabs discovered …

Education by Osmosis, through fMRI Could You Know Kung-Fu?

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

As with the testimonial line from The Matrix, “I know Kung-Fu.” We have a notion from modern popular science fiction that some day humanity might be able to overcome the cumbersome notion of learning from books and experience and directly implant education …

Angry Birds Maker Rovio Seeks Hong Kong 2013 IPO; Zynga Stock Continues to Drop

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

It’s been a year of social IPOs and it looks like 2013 will continue that trend with Rovio, the developer of the altogether famous Angry Birds. During an interview held with Reuters last week Peter Vesterbacka, marketing chief of Finnish company Rovio, …

Global Gaming Fueled by Cloud Distribution Grows 450% in 3 Years

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

The cloud-based global game-delivery company Pando Networks recently distributed a press-release containing a telling infographic about the growth of global gaming as seen through the eyes of their network. Some countries have seen faster growth into using their network to acquire games …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

Anonymous Hacks U.S. Security Think Tank Stratfor’s Christmas Stockings

Microsoft Brings “Edutainment” to the Next Level with Sesame Street, Kinect Partnership

Bitcoin vs. Western Union: It’s About Strength in Numbers

Chinese Hackers Commando Exfiltrate U.S. Chamber of Commerce Data

Kim Jong-il Malware Discovered Roaming the Wild

Education by Osmosis, through fMRI Could You Know Kung-Fu?

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