Sunday, January 10, 2010

Harmless web prank or security concern?

For Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, it was a global virtual black eye.

Instead of seeing his photo on the new European Union site, launched this week as Spain took over the presidency, visitors were greeted by Rowan Atkinson's comic character of Mr. Bean.

And if you clicked over to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Web site, you'd see that hackers took him on, too.

Millions flocked to mock and clicked to laugh at worldwide leaders -- but security experts say the truth is that the real joke could have been on them.

Read more at CNN.com -- 1/6/10


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