Kyt Dotson, Author at SiliconANGLE

Dennis Ritchie RIP: Computer Science Pioneer and Father of the C Programming Language

By Kyt Dotson Oct 13, 2011

Dennis Ritchie, the inventor of the programming language C and the co-inventor of the UNIX operating system has shuffled off this mortal coil. His contributions to contemporary computing are so far reaching that his…

Did Mafia Wars Bring Down Air Force Unmanned Drone Operations?

By Kyt Dotson Oct 13, 2011

The computer virus that has poxed the United States Air Force drone fleet appears to be a type routinely used to steal credentials from players who play Mafia Wars online. According to unofficial reports,…

RSA Blames “Nation State” and Tag-Team Hackers for Ides of March SecurID Breach

By Kyt Dotson Oct 12, 2011

In March, RSA suffered a cyberattack that compromised their SecurID platform and led to a recall and increased paranoia among their defense contractor customers. Yesterday at a press conference an RSA spokesman mentioned that…

Blizzard to Experiment with Real-Money for Gold Scheme in WoW via Tradable In-Game Pet

By Kyt Dotson Oct 12, 2011

Most of the virtual items for sale in Blizzard’s überpopular massively multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG) World of Warcraft bind directly to users’ accounts—meaning that once bought they cannot be traded to other…

Governor of California Crushes Bill Banning Warrantless Cell Phone Searches

By Kyt Dotson Oct 11, 2011

Gov. Jerry Brown of California has vetoed a bill that would have required police officers to obtain a warrant before searching arrestees’ smartphones. The bill would have worked to prevent the practice of law…

NYSE Unaffected by Anonymous Attack; Sabu of LulzSec ‘We still have Sun e-mails’

By Kyt Dotson Oct 11, 2011

October 4, we ran an article about how the hacktivist collective Anonymous began rumbling that it would proceed with an attack against the New York Stock Exchange in an act of solidarity with the…

The Evolving Place of Pastebin.com in Social Discourse, From LulzSec to Occupy Wall Street

By Kyt Dotson Oct 10, 2011

The previous decade showed us how the Internet and social media change the face of protests. In fact, a leaderless collective of interested parties emerged from forums calling themselves Anonymous to form a surprisingly…

Bitcoin7 Hacked, Funds Recovery Requires Sensitive Personal Information

By Kyt Dotson Oct 7, 2011

On Oct 5, 2011 the Bitcoin7 exchange website posted a message to its users that it had been subject to a hacking intrusion that compromised their wallets and their user database. “While our investigation…

Western Digital TV Live Set-Top Box Brightens Your Living Room with Spotify

By Kyt Dotson Oct 6, 2011

The living room cloud is dominated primarily by one device that has usurped the much vaunted place of the Victorian fireplace in the middle class home: the television. As a result, a large number…

Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff Restaurant Keynote Speech Reveals the Power of Social Enterprise

By Kyt Dotson Oct 5, 2011

Marc Benioff has managed to spit in Oracle’s eye using the very Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software his company develops and its paradigm to do so. John Furrier, founder of SiliconANGLE, sat in and…

Kyt Dotson

Dennis Ritchie RIP: Computer Science Pioneer and Father of the C Programming Language

Did Mafia Wars Bring Down Air Force Unmanned Drone Operations?

RSA Blames “Nation State” and Tag-Team Hackers for Ides of March SecurID Breach

Blizzard to Experiment with Real-Money for Gold Scheme in WoW via Tradable In-Game Pet

NYSE Unaffected by Anonymous Attack; Sabu of LulzSec ‘We still have Sun e-mails’

Bitcoin7 Hacked, Funds Recovery Requires Sensitive Personal Information

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