HARTFORD, Conn. -- The attorney general is targeting what he calls the who's who of the Internet power elite.

Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., announced on Thursday the formation of a task force to address age and identification verification of people on social-networking Web sites.

Blumenthal said titans including MySpace, Facebook, Microsoft and Google will try to devise better protection for their sites.

"There are driver's licenses, voting registrations, credit cards, all kinds of means of verifying that (can reveal) a 45-year-old man is posing as a 15-year-old is kicked off that site," Blumenthal said.

MySpace reached agreement in January with officials in nearly every state to add extensive measures aimed at combating sexual predators.

The task force is scheduled to issue a final report next year.