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Airship, a truly secure PHP CMS

Attacks on popular Content Management Systems are all too common, and with hacking nowadays considered big business, there's no sign of the attacks declining. CMSs therefore find themselves caught in the eye of the storm, considered as a prime target for both script kiddies and professional hackers alike, as they hold the biggest share of the e-commerce market.
The statistics revealed in Sucuri's most recent Website Hacked Trend report, paint a depressing picture, mainly due to the great user adoption of CMS which

...brings about serious challenges to the internet as a whole as it introduces a large influx of unskilled webmasters and service providers responsible for the deployment and administrations of these sites


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