POSTED: 4:30 am PDT June 25, 2004 UPDATED: 5:26 am PDT June 25, 2004
ALGONA, Wash. -- FBI agents raided an Algona home yesterday after federal agents found a possible link to the recent cow poisonings at an Enumclaw farm.
The raid took place less than 20 miles from the dairy farm after several cows were exposed to a toxic compound a few days ago. Three cows had to be euthanized and seven more are still ill.
Algona residents were surprised to see the FBI in their usually quiet neighborhood. "Yeah it's shocking because it's a pretty quiet community," said neighbor Mary Noel. Agents dressed in hazmat suits confiscated boxes of evidence including cleaning agents and unlabeled bottles of fluid.
Authorities questioned the man who lives at the home but he was not arrested nor has he been charged with any crime. Federal agents would not comment on whether more search warrants will be searched.
However authorities did say the investigation is ongoing and they are focusing on former dairy workers who may have a grudge against the farm or the farmer.
POSTED: 9:36 am EDT June 25, 2004 Government and industry experts are reporting a mysterious, large-scale Internet attack against thousands of popular Web sites.
The virus-like infection tries to implant hacker software onto the computers of all Web site visitors.
Industry experts and the Homeland Security Department are studying the infection to determine how it spreads across Web sites and find adequate defenses against it. A government warning says even Web sites trusted by users may contain the potentially malicious code.
The infection appears to target at least one recent version of Microsoft's Internet Information Server, which is popular among businesses and organizations. The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team says the problem adds a piece of JavaScript to the bottom of Web pages that accesses another server.
US-CERT says disabling JavaScript will prevent this activity from affecting a user's system, but it could make some sites that use JavaScript appear incorrectly. The attack's effects are said to be unusually broad, but are not substantially interfering with Internet traffic.
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It's good to see the updates coming on this case.