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

Breach Embarrasses Kernel.org, Doesn’t Threaten Linux Security

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

This week brings dread news to the Linux community when many have learned that an unknown intruder managed to breach the fortified walls of Kernel.org—the storage home and distribution center for the Linux kernel. The intruder managed to gain root access to …

Juniper Networks: The Future of Cloud Security Rests Ultimately in Virtualization

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

As more businesses move from enterprise models into the cloud and begin to virtualize more of the network stack, the harsh light of security begins to pool from beneath the doorjamb. High availability networks that use virtual servers and cloud functionality generate …

John W. Thompson Leads Virtual Instruments for Virtualization Total Situational Awareness

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

John W. Thompson, CEO of Virtual Instruments, isn’t any stranger to taking the reins of large corporate edifices as Symantec former CEO and current Chairman of the Board. His new role at Virtual Instruments finds him lording over a company that develops …

Rick Jackson at VMworld 2011: Bringing Confidence and Empowerment into Cloud IT

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Today in theCube, Dave Vellante and John Furrier spoke with Rick Jackson, VMware’s Chief Marketing Officer, about the direction VMware is going with their products and the nature and theme of VMworld 2011 itself. In fact, many people had been wondering at …

Fraudulent Google Certificate Put Iranian Users At Risk for Two Months

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Recently, an Iranian user uncovered a man-in-the-middle attack occurring with some of Google’s own security certificates for domains such as *.google.com. As it appears, some Iranian ISP may be involved in silently intercepting communications by Iranian citizens over the Internet by supplying …

Mt. Gox Warns Bitcoin Popularity Attracting Increased Phishing Attacks

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

In a recent e-mail broadcast, Mt. Gox—the premier Bitcoin exchange struck by a hack that nearly devastated the entire market in June—the exchange administrators warn of the rising tide of phishing attacks directed at users. As the Bitcoin market gains popularity, and …

Bitcoin Delivers Confidence for Online Casinos

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Amid the Bitcoin community, gambling happens to be one of the first of the vices that most users stumble across. In fact, the prevalence of pyramid and Ponzi schemes plying for people to throw their bitcoins into them are quite common—although most …

UK Police Continue Pursuit of Anonymous with Another Arrest in Hartlepool

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Thursday, U.K. police charged yet another suspect in connection with the Anonymous led denial-of-service attacks (DDOS). A 22-year-old student, Peter David Gibson, of Hartlepool, was charged under the Criminal Law Act of 1977. He has been bailed out and expects to see …

East Coast Cell Phone Carriers Brace Themselves for Hurricane Irene

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Natural disasters have a two-fold effect on infrastructure—and this is especially the case for wireless carriers—first there’s the actual damage caused to fiber, wire, and transmitter towers inflicted by the disaster itself and second there’s the sudden spike in usage by the …

Here Stands Steve Jobs: Apple’s Once and Future CEO

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

By now, the ripples of Steve Jobs announcing his resignation as the CEO of Apple will have subsided and the cold realization will set in amid fan and computer aficionado alike—it’s the end of an epoch. Apple Inc. saw a meteoric rise …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

Breach Embarrasses Kernel.org, Doesn’t Threaten Linux Security

Mt. Gox Warns Bitcoin Popularity Attracting Increased Phishing Attacks

Bitcoin Delivers Confidence for Online Casinos

UK Police Continue Pursuit of Anonymous with Another Arrest in Hartlepool

Here Stands Steve Jobs: Apple’s Once and Future CEO

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