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 #OpDarknet Burns Down Pedophile Websites and Publishes Usernames

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

The weekend brings us news of Anonymous grabbing their masks, torches, and pitchforks and raiding a series of privacy-hardened darknet websites. An Anonymous hactivist cell is claiming responsibility for taking down more than 40 child-pornography websites and releasing the login information for …

Virtual BlizzCon 2011 for $40: The Price of Eyeballs-Only Admittance

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Conventioneering is a big deal for fans of popular culture media, although while comics really take the cake with ComicCon and Anime Expo, video games aren’t far behind with E3, PAX, and BlizzCon. The current hullaballoo centers around the upcoming BlizzCon 2011 …

NSA Helps Expedite Hardened Android Kernel for “Classified” Smartphones

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

There’s been a lot of movement around Google’s Android mobile phone platform recently, especially involving security and its usefulness in classified sectors such as government, healthcare, and defense. For a while now, RIM’s BlackBerry has shored up much of these operations by …

“Take This Lollipop” Puts the Fear of Social Media Sharing Into You

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

As All Hallow’s Eve quickly approaches at the end of this October month many television networks are already gearing up with fright weeks and horror movie marathons. As for social media, a new Facebook app at takethislollipop.com that asks you to “Take …

Bitcoin Value Falling as ExchB Exchange Shutters its Doors and Windows

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Yesterday, Oct 16, 2011, ExchB officially stopped all transactions and closed up shop. The exchange bills itself as “the 1st US Bitcoin Exchange” and now they’ll take that title to the exchange grave with them as they lock their virtual doors for …

Red Card! Xbox LIVE Users Targeted by Soccer Fan Hacker

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Over the past month a large number of reports of hacked Xbox LIVE accounts have been flowing to a reporter at Ars Technica and the pattern emerging seems a bit specific: the hacker purchases FIFA Soccer 11 or 12 accompanied with a …

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

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

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 work has branched into almost every conceivable human …

Did Mafia Wars Bring Down Air Force Unmanned Drone Operations?

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

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, drone command caught an Internet cold. The USAF …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

Anonymous #OpDarknet Burns Down Pedophile Websites and Publishes Usernames

NSA Helps Expedite Hardened Android Kernel for “Classified” Smartphones

Bitcoin Value Falling as ExchB Exchange Shutters its Doors and Windows

Red Card! Xbox LIVE Users Targeted by Soccer Fan Hacker

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

Did Mafia Wars Bring Down Air Force Unmanned Drone Operations?

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