Facebook, Yahoo Fix Valuable $ecurity Hole$
Summary: Facebook and Yahoo each fixed security holes that let attackers hijack user accounts, with Facebook patching a flaw found by researcher Sow Ching Shiong that allowed password changes without knowing the old password via the facebook.com/hacked URL. KrebsOnSecurity reported the Facebook exploit was sold to a handful of members of an elite underground forum for $4,000 per buyer by the same hacker who sold a Yahoo cross-site scripting flaw for $700 under the name TheHell.
What's compelling: A working account-takeover exploit for a major platform carried a $4,000 underground price tag, and the same seller was moving a Yahoo email hijack for $700 - a reminder that the flaws behind account compromise are cheap enough to be traded among a handful of buyers before most defenders hear of them.
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