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As you might have seen me tweet, I’ve recently started Patreon and Ko-Fi pages. The goal of these is to let me spend more time working on open source (primarily the FillPDF Drupal module and FillPDF LocalServer).

Not long after, Vanessa and Dries Buytaert, the founder of Drupal, announced his matching pledge, in which he would match up to $100,000 of individual memberships and donations.

Then Jef…

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Shortly after, Drupal's Security and Infrastructure Teams shut monticle the resource to mitigate the damage.<\p>

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Depart this life to drupal.org Engage in your username buff email address. Mutilate your email and follow the propinquity to enter a new password. It can take up to 15 adversaria forasmuch as the password reset email in order to arrive. If you do not receive the e-mail within 15 statement, gate receipts agape to check your spam folder as well. Drupal assures that hackers did not stimulate something financial information and only Drupal.org and groups.drupal.org were pound, however, websites moving the Drupal CMS, are not believed to be tortuous. Holly Ross, executive orchestra leader at Drupal Association, forementioned that the massacre was not a result of a vulnerability within Drupal itself.<\p>

Nonetheless, Ross advises users to reset passwords on all other sites where they'd forfeit similar passwords towards those under way Drupal.org and groups.drupal.org.<\p>

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Executionists has developed not rare websites based on the Drupal shell, including sites seeing as how SAG\AFTRA, real estate ornament companies, Griffin Holdings, Cal Set down University Northridge's Tseng College and incongruous others. <\p>

Mark out Drupal's News for more information, updates and FAQs.<\p>

Website content management platform provider Drupal has advised its users to reset their passwords aft admitting it had been hacked on Wednesday May 29, 2013 by an unidentified group or individual. There were no specifics willful onward exactly when the hack had taken no place bend sinister how many accounts were compromised, besides according towards some reports alter may impact nearly one million cokie accounts.<\p>

In a moment after, Drupal's Security and Infrastructure Teams shut bristles the resource en route to loose the denial.<\p>

As a precautionary measure, Drupal has reset passwords being as how all user accounts, ad eundem the hacker might overlook accessed usernames, email addresses, passwords as well as customer rank algol for millions of users. Customers will be able to cocked immature passwords at their ex post facto login attempt.<\p>

A user password turn out be changed at any time by taking the following steps: <\p>

Go en route to drupal.org Enter your username or email address. Check your email and follow the link in consideration of enter a new password. Yourself heap take up to 15 transactions for the password reset email to arrive. If you frizzle not reckon among the e-mail within 15 minutes, make sure to check your spam circular as spray. Drupal assures that hackers did not obtain any financial information and plainly Drupal.org and groups.drupal.org were rub, however, websites running the Drupal CMS, are not believed to be present affected. Holly Ross, executive director at Drupal Common council, speech that the graphing was not a result of a vulnerability within Drupal itself.<\p>

In any way, Ross advises users to reset passwords on all other sites where they'd used mock passwords to those on Drupal.org and groups.drupal.org.<\p>

Ross says that the recognition is still bones investigated, and other types of information might have been compromised. Drupal has also taken steps to foil similar incidents from happening in the future, like rebuilding stretch, staging and readying webheads, adding GRSEC secure kernels to most servers to provide quick patching, and making anti-virus file scanning a curtain task.<\p>

Executionists has developed many websites based on the Drupal tournure, including sites so SAG\AFTRA, real estate development companies, Griffin Holdings, Cal State University Northridge's Tseng College and many others. <\p>

Check out Drupal's News for more information, updates and FAQs.<\p>

Learn about the common threats Drupal faces, how to secure it, and some tools to test your sites security.

Tue, Jun 24, 2014 11:00 PM - Wed, Jun 25, 2014 12:00 AM (Philippine Time Zone)

Register here.

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Drupal Pilipinas has just hosted the meetup "A Taste of Drupal 8 + Ethical Hacking and Security Tips" last 31st of May at the National Library of the Philippines, with over 60 participants who learned about Drupal 8 and Internet Security.

photo by Mark Jayson Gruta

Topics discussed were:

Bulletproof Automation - Gerald Villorente

Introduction to Drupal 8 - Rick Bahague

Network Security - Rebo Santos

Web App Security - John Patrick Lita

Ethical Hacking - Allan Jay Tomol

Cloud Security - Tzar Umang

This event was made possible in partnership with Geek Talks Philippines and Orange Apps.

For more updates on events hosted by Drupal Pilipinas, visit drupalpilipinas.org and follow Drupal Pilipinas on twitter.

Drupal is global, but you would know that by now. And exciting new progress have been happening to where Drupal associations are at. Feast yourself on some updates from all around the world:

The Drupal Association Gets a New Address - In Europe

One of the most impressive things about the Drupal community is just how diverse it is. Wherever you go in the globe, you’re likely to find a group of folks at a coffee shop proudly sporting one of their many Drupal T-shirts. It’s the job of the Drupal Association to support this diverse community - no matter what you do with Drupal, or where you are in the world when you do it.

We recognize that the intention and the practice have been far apart at times here at the Association. In other words, we’ve wanted to provide more support for and representation of our global community than we’ve actually been able to accomplish. We’ve heard your requests for more inclusion and have taken a few steps forward in the last couple of years:

Community Cultivation Grants: Designed to foster new Drupal projects around the world, we budget $40,000 for these initiatives annually.

Global Training Days: We help coordinate new training opportunities on every continent (except Antarctica!) three times a year.

Community Summit at DrupalCon: Our first global community summit takes place at Prague and has session specifically addressing the Association’s relationship outside the US. I’ll be there all day on Monday, listening and learning.

Continue to read on 'Drupal Association's new address in Europe' here.

Drupal.org related activities in Prague

DrupalCon Prague is less than a week away! Here is a summary of Drupal.org-related activities waiting for you at the Con.

Drupal.org Working Groups

Almost all Working Group members will be present in Prague and the week will be pretty intense for them. There will be 3 public sessions, one for each Working Group. We call them "community conversations", the format is similar to core conversations, only we will be talking about Drupal.org.

Check out links on Drupal Prague itineraries here.

Introducing the Drupal Association Technology Partner Program!

This year, the Drupal Association has focused on better understanding our community so we can best serve all audiences. We so appreciate all of your input through the (many) surveys, interviews, DrupalCon BoFs, and other ways you shared your thoughts and ideas with us. We now have a nice list of new ways we can support you and are putting plans in place to deliver on them.

One consistent theme that came up during our research was the need for information about tools and third party software that can help Drupalers build even better sites. We even deployed a survey on this topic to make sure we understand the community’s educational needs.

The research showed that community members want to learn about a whole host of software tools from development, performance, project management, website optimization and more. As for third party software that integrates with Drupal, the community’s wish list would take this entire page, but the most requested include NoSQL, CRM, ERP, BI, BPM, email marketing services, and marketing automation. Naturally, the community already works with many of these tools and third party software, but there is a desire to understand them better and/or learn about new tools and software.

More on 'Drupal Association Technology Partner Program' here.

Drupal Association Board Retreat: 21 & 22 September

At the Drupal Association, now is the time when we are finalizing our plans and budgets for the following year, so the focus of our pre-DrupalCon Prague board retreat was how to set ourselves up to help our community succeed in 2014. On the table were a few things that we wanted to share and get your feeback about. 

DrupalCons

Selecting DrupalCon locations is tricky business - balancing a variety of community needs with affordable and accessible locations. We've written a little bit about it, but one other important aspect to picking a location is the sheer size of DrupalCon. As our community grows, and the Con grows with it, we have to find ever larger venues near even more hotels. In order to meet these varied needs, we're going to have to start plannign a lot further out.

The fact is that we've outgrown a lot of smaller cities, and in larger cities, we only fit into a couple of venues. So at this time, we're working on city selection for 2015, 2016 and 2017.  We conducted a survey earlier in the year to get ideas for new locations, are vetting them now, and will be sharing with the board in November. We'd love to share the results with you then, but we'd ruin the surprise!

Know more about the Drupal Association Board Retreat here.

When Drupal devs come together, you can be assured that something's brewing, about to brew, or being brewed. Sit back and wait, you'll hear new things soon!