Political websites have been hacked over the past 24 hours to leave leaders with red faces.
A report on BBC News said that visitors to Spain’s EU presidency website were greeted by an image of comedy character Mr Bean instead of the Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero.
The government said that the site – www.eu2010.es – had not been attacked and that a hacker had taken a screenshot of the homepage to make a photo montage using a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability. Visitors found an image of Mr Bean complete with a benign smile and the words ‘Hi there’.
