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

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

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

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 they believe it was the act of two …

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

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

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 players. Recently, Blizzard announced a new vanity pet …

Governor of California Crushes Bill Banning Warrantless Cell Phone Searches

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

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 enforcement of opening up a person’s cell phone, …

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

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

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 Occupy Wall Street (#OWS) movement. That attack took …

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

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

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 large mass protest against Scientology. We’ve seen social …

Bitcoin7 Hacked, Funds Recovery Requires Sensitive Personal Information

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

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 is still going, evidence reveals that the attacks …

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

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

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 of devices have risen in an ecosystem to …

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

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

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 broadcast the entire keynote on SiliconANGLE.tv. After having …

David Flynn of Fusion-io Discusses Atomic Multiblock Native Write

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Fusion-io, already becoming famous for their highly successful Flash storage products, is adding a new technology that will permit a new type of write primitive called an “atomic multiblock native write.” Most importantly the multiblock write will be enabled and native to …

Jailbreak Utility for iPhone Redsn0w Ahead of the Game with iOS 5.0 GM for iPhone 4S, iPad, and iPod

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

It looks like just on the edge of unveiling the new iPhone, hackers across the Internet have already gotten on the ball and prepared a jailbreak for the device that allows tethering. The jailbreak program is named Redsn0w (updated version 0.9.9b2) but …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

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

David Flynn of Fusion-io Discusses Atomic Multiblock Native Write

Jailbreak Utility for iPhone Redsn0w Ahead of the Game with iOS 5.0 GM for iPhone 4S, iPad, and iPod

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