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COMPUTER criminals are coming up with ever stealthier ways to make money. Rather than attack PCs or email inboxes, their latest trick is to subvert the very infrastructure of the internet, the domain name system (DNS) that routes all net traffic. In doing so, they redirect internet users to bogus websites, where visitors could have their passwords and credit details stolen, be forced to download malicious software, or be directed to links to pay-per-click adverts. This kind of attack is called DNS cache poisoning or polluting. It was first done by pranksters in the early years of the internet, but...

Was Agnès Sorel, the first official royal mistress of France, poisoned? Grenoble (France), 2 April 2005 - The ESRF has gone back in time to study the reason behind the sudden death of the beautiful mistress of French king Charles VII, in the XV century. Thanks to synchrotron light, pieces of Agnès Sorel's hair and skin have been studied. The evidence obtained makes it possible to suggest plausible causes of death. The way she died is not known yet, however, incredibly high levels of mercury have been found in her remains. This finding opens the door to numerous hypotheses. The...

Senators have made it much harder to reach a new agreement on the intelligence overhaul bill after their harsh comments during the weekend about the Republicans who blocked the measure, one key House negotiator said yesterday. "An already poisoned well got poisoned even more badly," said Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner Jr., Wisconsin Republican and House Judiciary Committee chairman. He and House Armed Services Committee Chairman Duncan Hunter think that the compromise bill that House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert wanted to bring to a vote on Saturday went too far in constricting the power of the military to use real-time intelligence...

VIENNA - Allegations that Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko was poisoned are baseless, an Austrian hospital that treated him said on Tuesday. The hospital gave no details about what it believes to be the cause of Yushchenko's symptoms, but said it would hold a news conference on Wednesday to discuss the case. Opposition leader Yushchenko stopped campaigning for an Oct. 31 poll and flew to Vienna for treatment earlier this month after becoming ill with what aides said was first thought to be food poisoning but later said was chemical poisoning. "False information about Mr. Yushchenko having been poisoned has...

Inuit 'Poisoned from Afar' Due to Climate Change 2 hours, 1 minute ago By Amran Abocar TORONTO (Reuters) - The Inuit living in the Arctic region are being "poisoned from afar" as climate change takes its toll on the area and threatens their existence, the head of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference said on Wednesday. Sheila Watt-Cloutier, chairwoman of the group that represents about 155,000 Inuit in the Arctic regions of Canada, Russia, Greenland and the United States, said Inuit were paying dearly for the actions of people elsewhere. "The Inuit have now become the net recipients of toxins coming from...

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St. Albans, Vermont - April 5, 2004 Dr. Ray Long says he was forced to conduct his own investigation after three of his surgery patients were infected with a rare and deadly bacterium in December. "I undertook my own investigation," says Dr. Long. Long says his investigation turned up the rare bacteria in fluid bags meant for his patients at a time when he was questioning policies at the Northwest Medical Center. He suspected the bags were intentionally infected to as part of a plot to harm his patients and ruin his career. "We're talking about different bacteria. We're talking...

Republican Government Officials Infected with "Mystery Bug" PHILADELPHIA - Health officials are investigating an outbreak of illnesses at a Philadelphia hotel that recently played host to about 200 Republican leaders, including President Bush. At least 69 guests at the Loews Philadelphia Hotel - all attending a business conference - went to the hospital last week when a mystery bug caused dizziness and vomiting. More fell ill, but did not seek medical attention. In addition, two people at a GOP retreat to discuss party policy Jan. 29-31 - a member of House Speaker Dennis Hastert's staff and a second staff member's...

US warns Schröder of 'poisoned' ties By Rupert Cornwell in Washington 24 September 2002 The United States served chilly notice to Chancellor Gerhard Schröder yesterday that it was in no mood to forgive and forget after his "red-green" coalition's wafer-thin victory in Sunday's German election. Speaking in Warsaw where he is attending a Nato meeting, Donald Rumsfeld, the Defence Secretary, said the anti-American tone of the campaign – culminating in the outgoing justice minister's reported likening of George Bush's tactics to those of Hitler – had "poisoned" relations between America and one of its closest allies. To underline Washington's displeasure,...