Monday, November 16, 2009

Facebook's (In)security Tested Again

"In an unusual move to bring attention to weak security within Facebook Groups, an organization called Control Your Info has infiltrated the administration of roughly 300 of those Facebook Groups.

The breach was first reported by the blog Loose Wire.

Facebook, in a statement, was careful to assert the action taken by Control Your Info was not a hijacking of those Groups, because the Groups had no administrators to hijack.

According to Control Your Info, it simply found -- through a simple Google query -- which Facebook Groups had no administrator. It then logged into the Groups as their administrator."

More here....