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

LulzSec “Hack the Planet” Week TGIF’s with Leak of AZDPS Documents

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Late last night, Thursday, the Internet highwaymen group of LulzSec finished collating through numerous leaks and other information they gathered from directing other hacker groups to attack government websites and released a megaton smartbomb of leaked information from Arizona’s Department of Public …

SEGA and BBC Earth Unite to Create Interactive Multi-sensory Nature “Experience"

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

SEGA will be using footage and knowledge drawn from the immense archives of BBC Worldwide to create a giant themed interactive experience for visitors that allows them to experience natural history in a way not done before. The companies have revealed that …

PARC Innovates the Next Internet Era with Content-Centric Networking

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

There’s a common science fiction concept about eventually separating data from static infrastructure. A huge part of how data flows through the Internet is guided by not just the cables that it flows through, but vast datacenters built up for specific purposes …

Bitcoin Staggering Into Near Market Illiquidity in Wake of MtGox

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency that made a huge splash in the media recently, is finding its market crushed under its own weight after a widely publicized hack at an extremely large exchange site MtGox. A malicious hacker compromised the account of a bitcoin …

Scotland Yard Arrests Hacker in England, LulzSec Denies Connection

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

The world’s hacker drama continues apace with Lulz Security calling upon a multitude of disenfranchised hackers and scriptkiddies to strike out at badly secured government websites across the world. This call has generated something of a smokescreen for the hacker group who …

EFF Ditches Bitcoin as Alternative Donation Currency Due to Legal Insecurities

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

After being one of the most interesting adopters of Bitcoin, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has decided to stop taking donations in the cryptocurrency and flush current holdings. In their statement, the EFF stated that they will be pouring their accumulated (and …

Anonymous Disrupts Over 51 Malaysian Government Websites

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

As there’s been a huge increase in media coverage of hacker activity and cyberwarfare across the world, we’re starting to see more major news outlets describe what happens when entire countries get targeted. Fifty-one Malaysian government controlled websites suffered hacks last week …

Microsoft Releases Kinect SDK for Windows 7, Let the Magic Happen

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

With the recent presentation at E3, Kinect is slowly making its debut into popular game franchises (like Mass Effect) beyond its original gimmick game appearances and Microsoft shows little chance of slowing down in getting it adopted by everyone. To this extent, …

LulzSec Dumps Cargo of 62k Logins, 12k of them Belong to WriterSpace.com Users

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

If you are concerned your information has been released in one of the recent LulzSec data dumps, Gizmodo.com has a leak checker available. Go check there. A boatload of ill-gotten e-mail addresses and passwords found itself dropped off at a public port …

Hacker Group LulzSec Downs CIA.gov Website, IT Security Community Rolls Their Eyes

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Yesterday, the malicious Internet prankster group LulzSec directed a heavy salvo of distributed denial of service attacks at cia.gov—the public facing front for the United States Central Intelligence Bureau. As DDoS attacks are somewhat unsophisticated brute-force attempts to shut down a website, …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

LulzSec “Hack the Planet” Week TGIF’s with Leak of AZDPS Documents

SEGA and BBC Earth Unite to Create Interactive Multi-sensory Nature “Experience"

Bitcoin Staggering Into Near Market Illiquidity in Wake of MtGox

Scotland Yard Arrests Hacker in England, LulzSec Denies Connection

EFF Ditches Bitcoin as Alternative Donation Currency Due to Legal Insecurities

Anonymous Disrupts Over 51 Malaysian Government Websites

LulzSec Dumps Cargo of 62k Logins, 12k of them Belong to WriterSpace.com Users

Hacker Group LulzSec Downs CIA.gov Website, IT Security Community Rolls Their Eyes

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