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Happy Birthday: WordPress celebrates 10 years of digital publishing

Happy Birthday: WordPress celebrates 10 years of digital publishing
  • Posted May 28, 2013, 4:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Software, The Web
  • One of the most popular content management systems (CMS) in the world just celebrated a huge milestone – their 10th anniversary. WordPress launched way back in May 2003 By Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little as an easy way for users…

Weekend tech reading: Is LinkedIn the creepiest social network? Fresh iPhone jailbreak news, and keeping up with Moore's Law

Weekend tech reading: Is LinkedIn the creepiest social network? Fresh iPhone jailbreak news, and keeping up with Moore
  • Posted May 12, 2013, 11:00 AM by Julio Franco | Filed in NATW

  • After digging for answers, I’ve concluded that LinkedIn is by far the creepiest social network. The primary reasons LinkedIn is the mustached, trench coat and wire frame glasses wearing mouth breather of the internet are the "People You May Know" and "People Also Viewed" features.

Hole in W3 Total Cache WordPress plugin exposes site database info

Hole in W3 Total Cache WordPress plugin exposes site database info
  • Posted December 27, 2012, 6:00 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in IT Security, The Web

  • Security researcher Jason A. Donenfeld has revealed a security hole in a popular WordPress plugin that could be used to obtain sensitive data from an affected site. The flaw was discovered in W3 Total Cache, which has been downloaded over a million times and is used by...

Hackers target AMD's blog, steal usernames, emails and passwords

Hackers target AMD
  • Posted August 21, 2012, 9:30 AM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in The Web, IT Security

  • AMD’s official blog has become the latest victim of hackers after a four-man group known as r00tbeer breached its server, defaced their blog and dumped a SQL database with the user credentials of nearly 200 of the...

Man fined $7,000 for sharing 'WordPress for Dummies' via BitTorrent

Man fined $7,000 for sharing
  • Posted July 3, 2012, 1:30 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in The Web, Industry News

  • Robert Carpenter of Poughkeepsie, New York has been ordered to pay $7,000 in damages for sharing a copy of "WordPress All-in-One For Dummies" on BitTorrent. Carpenter was part of a mass filing by publisher John Wiley & Sons last October that included 27 John Does...

WordPress powers 60 million blogs, 300 million unique visitors monthly

WordPress powers 60 million blogs, 300 million unique visitors monthly
  • Posted November 11, 2011, 3:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Software, The Web
  • Blogging software WordPress is now responsible for powering more than 60 million blogs that generate more than 300 million unique visitors per month. According to founder Matt Mullenweg, about half of the 60 million WordPress-powered blogs are hosted by WordPress.com…

WordPress passes 50 million websites milestone

WordPress passes 50 million websites milestone
  • Posted July 11, 2011, 1:00 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in The Web
  • Yesterday, the number of self-hosted and WordPress.com blogs passed the 50 million mark. WordPress keeps a counter on its wordpress.com/stats website, keeping track of the number of WordPress installations on its own servers as well as self-hosted blogs.

WordPress 3.2 released, now faster and lighter

WordPress 3.2 released, now faster and lighter
  • Posted July 5, 2011, 1:37 AM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Software With Video
  • WordPress.org has announced the availability of WordPress 3.2 (codenamed Gershwin), the fifteenth major release of the open source publishing platform. Version 3.2, which is dedicated to noted composer and pianist George Gershwin, is available as an update in your dashboard…

Wordpress says goodbye to IE6

Wordpress says goodbye to IE6
  • Posted May 24, 2011, 1:00 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Microsoft
  • WordPress has discontinued support for Internet Explorer 6 in its latest update. The company has explained that it has had to use increasingly complex code trickery to make the Dashboard work in IE6, and has finally decided that enough is enough.

Hackers gain root access to WordPress servers

Hackers gain root access to WordPress servers
  • Posted April 14, 2011, 4:47 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in IT Security, The Web
  • Automattic, the folks behind WordPress, suffered another blow to its security this week after a hacker gained access to servers containing sensitive company and user data. In a blog post yesterday, President Matt Mullenweg described the breach as a "low-level…

WordPress suffers second DDoS attack

WordPress suffers second DDoS attack
  • Posted March 4, 2011, 3:48 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in IT Security, The Web
  • WordPress has been slammed by a second distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack in two days. The popular blogging platform was hit by an "extremely large" DDoS yesterday that amounted to multiple Gigabits and tens of millions of packets per…

WordPress.com hit by "extremely large" DDoS attack

  • Posted March 3, 2011, 2:22 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in IT Security
  • WordPress.com, used by over 13 percent of the 1,000,000 biggest websites, was hit today by an "extremely large" distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. As a result, some users experienced performance and connectivity problems, Sophos.

WordPress adds text message notifications and controls

WordPress adds text message notifications and controls
  • Posted October 12, 2010, 3:31 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in The Web, Mobile Computing
  • WordPress has added new SMS features that will be useful for all types of bloggers on the go. Unfortunately, the service is limited to the US only for now. The text messaging features are split into free and paid features…

Microsoft kills Windows Live Spaces, calls on WordPress

  • Posted September 27, 2010, 3:30 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in The Web, Microsoft
  • Microsoft has decided that in order to continue providing great blogging experience, it has to kill off Windows Live Spaces and move its 30 million customers to Wordpress. Microsoft says that Automattic, WordPress' parent company, offers a scalable platform, leading…

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