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Yahoo! has released a nice tool to help make easy CSS grid layouts with its YUI: CSS Grid Builder.
Use it to make your columns, set their widths, and add places for your header and and footer content. The tool then creates the code and allows you to copy it.
Yahoo! has tested these designs in all [...]

An article posted at TechSport.com alleges that a Yahoo! company, Right Media, accidentally served ads that contained trojan viruses on MySpace and PhotoBucket, among other Web sites.
The banner ads, which were brokered by Right Media, were served an estimated 12 million times over a three-week period starting in early August, according to ScanSafe, a managed security [...]

McAfee Avert Labs is reporting that it has uncovered a new zero-day exploit in Yahoo! Messenger Webcam. It is advising that Yahoo! Messenger users stop accepting invites from anyone that they don’t know and trust until a patch has been released.
The bug consists of a “classic heap overflow” that may be triggered when a [...]

Yahoo! Widgets engine versions prior to 4.0.5 for Microsoft Windows have a critical vulnerability.
The vulnerability is reported to be present in an ActiveX control buffer overflow. A malicious web page could trigger it and allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code.
Yahoo! has confirmed an update is available that closes this vulnerability.
[ July 24, 2007 Security [...]

PCPro has reported that BitDefender has learned that tens of thousands of Yahoo and Hotmail users accounts have been hijacked to send spam messages.
The malware not only generates new webmail accounts automatically but has also found a way around the anti-spam CAPTCHA system, which requires people to enter the letters depicted in an image.
The trojan [...]

US-CERT is warning of an exploit being used against Yahoo! Messenger that may allow an attacker to install malware on a a machine.
If you use Yahoo! Messenger, Yahoo! has released an update which should be installed immediately.
US-CERT is also recommending that Yahoo! Messenger users also do the following:

Disable the ActiveX controls listed in the Yahoo! [...]

TechDirt is warning that everyone using web based email to have a backup plan in place for their emails when these use these services. Many people have switched to Gmail for their email program and rely on Google to store all their emails forever. Gmail even suggests you never delete anything as they’ll keep adding [...]

Lots of blogs are displaying MyBlogLog widgets and include the MyBlogLog tracking javascript code on their sites, including mine. However, it has just been discovered that MyBlogLog has the ability to track ad views and clicks.
I’m not too sure how I feel about this. At times I get really sick of the headaches MyBlogLog causes, [...]