Technikfreak Posted January 6, 2010 Report Posted January 6, 2010 [img]http://gulfnews.com/polopoly_fs/spain-s-eu-webpage-hacked-1.563541!image/4142077372.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_475/4142077372.jpg[/img]Madrid : An unidentified hacker briefly hijacked Spain's official website for its presidency of the European Union, inserting a picture of comic character Mr Bean, an official said.The government said in a statement that the site itself, [url=http://www.eu2010.es]www.eu2010.es[/url], had not been attacked, but that an unidentified hacker had taken a screenshot of the home page to make a photo montage.The mock-up replaced Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero with a smiling Mr Bean, the television and movie character played by British actor Rowan Atkinson, saying "Hi there".The supposed resemblance of the bumbling slapstick character played by Atkinson to Zapatero has been a running joke in Spain for years. A recent edition of leading newspaper El Pais printed a cartoon depicting Zapatero as Mr Bean above an article critical of the government's handling of the economy."The alleged attack exploited a vulnerability called XSS (cross site scripting) to users of the website...," the statement said.
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