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February 2017: The month in hacks and breaches

On February 5, an anonymous hacker kicked off February’s breaches, taking down a dark web hosting service that the hacker claimed was hosting child pornography sites. In the process, the hacker showed just how easily the dark web can be compromised.

Then, on February 10, as many as 20 hackers (or groups of hackers) exploited a recently patched REST API vulnerability to deface over 1.5 million web pages across about 40,000 WordPress websites. “The flaw was fixed in WordPress 4.7.2, released on Jan. 26, but the WordPress team did not publicly disclose the vulnerability’s existence until a week later,” Lucian Constantin reported.

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Readability is shutting down its read-later service this month


Readability, which offers a free bookmarking and read-later service, has announced that it will down its shutters on September 30. The news comes more than five years after Readability launched. The company hasn’t specified why it’s closing shop. However, it noted in a blog post that while the user-facing service will cease to function, the Readability Parser API for developers will continue to be available, and there will be more announcements soon. If you have bookmarks and articles stored in a Readability account, you can log into the app and head to the Tools page to export them before September…

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