The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) announced this week the initiation of its search for applicants for the 2006-2007 AVMA Fellowship program. Selected participants will spend a year in Washington, D.C., working in the U.S. Congress or Department of Homeland Security as an AVMA Fellow.
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Latest Sober threatens e-mail gateways | Tech News on ZDNet
The latest Sober worm, first spotted over the weekend, has generated the vast majority of virus-laden e-mail traffic in the past 24 hours and could cause problems for corporate e-mail gateways, security companies said.
This variant of Sober generates e-mails that purport to be from the CIA [...]
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Sony sued for breaching anti-spyware act
Texas attorney general Greg Abbott filed a civil lawsuit on Monday against Sony BMG Music Entertainment for allegedly including spyware on its media player designed to thwart music copying.
According to the lawsuit filed in Travis County, several of the company’s music compact discs require customers to download Sony’s media players [...]
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Nigerian fraudsters jailed for $240m bank sting – Government & Law – Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com
Two of the perpetrators of the largest ever fraud in Nigerian history have been jailed for a total of 37 years.
According to Reuters, Emmanuel Nwude was sentenced to 25 years and Nzeribe Okoli to 12 years for [...]
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EarthLink’s pursuit lands spammer in can | CNET News.com
A Florida man known as the “timeshare spammer” was sentenced to a year in prison on Thursday for clogging in-boxes with millions of unsolicited e-mail messages, in one of the first criminal prosecutions under federal anti-spam laws.
Peter Moshou plead guilty in June to violating the U.S. Can-Spam [...]
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Nigerian e-mail scammers jailed |CNET News.com
AGOS-A court has sentenced two men to a total of 37 years in prison for their part in defrauding a Brazilian bank of $242 million, the biggest scam in Nigerian history, newspapers reported on Saturday.
The sentencing of Emmanuel Nwude to 25 years and Nzeribe Okoli to 12 years follows negotiations [...]
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Sober worm offshoot trades on Paris Hilton, FBI | Tech News on ZDNet
There is no Easter Bunny, and that’s not a real Paris Hilton video in your e-mail box. Nor is the FBI likely to be e-mailing you to ask you questions about visiting illegal Web sites.
A new variant of the Sober worm made the [...]
As part of its expanded communications initiative, the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) has hired Kimberly May, DVM, MS, DACVS, as medical/science writer.
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Sony’s attempt at protecting its music CDs from piracy has turned into a tale of security woes that has quickly gone from bad to worse.
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