The takeover of administration rights to a large number of Facebook groups by an organization that calls itself Control Your Info is just one example of the many security issues facing social-networking sites in general and Facebook in particular, according to experts.

Indeed, this nontechnical exploit can be called a benign example of what is at risk if better controls aren’t put in place. Control Your Info hijacked almost 300 groups by simply taking over unadministered groups. Dave Amsler, the cofounder and CIO of Foreground Security, said the illegitimate administrators have access to profile information, e-mail addresses and other data that members have provided. He pointed out that credit-card numbers aren’t involved…Read more