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ISIS sympathizers exploiting WordPress plugins to hack websites, FBI warns
The Federal Bureau of Investigation warned Tuesday that attackers claiming to be sympathetic to the extremist group ISIS are targeting websites that have vulnerable WordPress plugins. The content management system has a thriving community of third-party developers who...
Microsoft Is Making a Stripped-Down Windows to Rival Linux
TODAY, BIG SILICON Valley names like Google and Twitter run their online services across thousands of machines. And to efficiently execute their software with so much hardware in the mix, they use the open source Linux operating system and a technology called...
Informatica Could Feel A Tight Squeeze From Its New Owners
Informatica was sold yesterday to private equity firm, Permira and The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, a rather strange mix of investors. The selling price was $5.3B and published reports suggest that it might not have been Informatica’s wish to be sold. What’s...
Dropbox Teams With Microsoft To Allow Anyone To Edit Documents Online
Microsoft and Dropbox are expanding their already close partnership today with the reveal of a new integration that will now allow consumers to edit their Microsoft Office files, including Word, PowerPoint and Excel documents, in Dropbox using...
GoDaddy Acquires Marketplace Startup Elto To Expand Its Services For Web Pros
Web hosting and web services provider GoDaddy is continuing to expand its resources for small business owners, following its recent IPO. The company has now closed on the acquisition Elto, a San Francisco-based startup which had been offering a marketplace that...
Are You Backing Up WordPress? You’d Better Be
If your small business is backing up WordPress only once in a while, then you’re not alone. In fact, a survey of 503 WordPress users released March 10 by CodeGuard, a provider of cloud-based website backup services, reveals that 47 percent of WordPress users...