Automattic acquires analytics company Parse.ly

Automattic, the for-profit company tied to open source web publishing platform WordPress, is announcing that it has acquired analytics provider Parse.ly. Specifically, Parse.ly is now part of WPVIP, the organization within Automattic that offers enterprise hosting and support to publishers including TechCrunch. (We use Parse.ly, too.) WPVIP CEO Nick Gernert described this as the organization’s […] Continue reading Automattic acquires analytics company Parse.ly

Contentful raises $80M Series E round for its headless CMS

Headless CMS company Contentful today announced that it has raised an $80 million Series E funding round led by Sapphire Ventures, with participation from General Catalyst, Salesforce Ventures and a number of other new and existing investors. With this, the company has now raised a total of $158.3 million and a Contentful spokesperson tells me […] Continue reading Contentful raises $80M Series E round for its headless CMS

Pass the salt! Popular CMSs aren’t securing passwords properly

A group of researchers has discovered that many of the web’s most popular content management systems are using obsolete algorithms to protect their users’ passwords. Continue reading Pass the salt! Popular CMSs aren’t securing passwords properly

How to secure your content management system

Popular content management systems are easy to install and use. But how easy is it to keep them secure?
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A look into the Drupalgeddon client-side attacks

Back-to-back Drupal zero-day vulnerabilities are being monetized with malicious web cryptominers.
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Cryptomining
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AI will fundamentally change how we manage content

 Content management is about to undergo a foundational shift as AI and machine learning bring long-sought order to enterprise content. As the volume of content has increased, the ability to manage it all seems to have alluded us. Ironic, since Con… Continue reading AI will fundamentally change how we manage content