-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The SecurityNewsPortal is BACK !
http://206.61.52.48/index.html You can use this direct IP address to get to the new web site until the new DNS of www.SecurityNewsPortal.com starts working again. The SNP will initially return to the Internet running with its barebones skeleton web page, often referred to by our regular viewers of SNP as the 'surgery' web page. A term coined by the users when I posted this style of interim page online while having surgery and I was not able to perform the hourly ( by the minute ) news updates like usual. I have added several new features to the 'surgery' page that will give you access to the entire news resources at moreover.com and newsnow.com. As well I have placed a news search engine on the page that has the ability to search for news at eighty-two different news resources. As soon as possible the SNP will return to its previous look, feel and method of presenting the latest breaking security, hacking and virus news. This is what we will be silently constructing in the background over the next couple of weeks. Until the SNP returns to its full original look and feel we want to thank you for visiting and we hope you will be able to make use of the new features we have added to the 'temporary' web page that we have put up for your use. Hopefully within a few days the folks at Network Solutions will do their magic and make our domain name of www.SecurityNewsPortal point to this new server. In the meantime feel free to bookmark this IP address until the domain name address of www.SecurityNewsPortal.com starts working again http://206.61.52.48/index.html As you know, the SNP is owned, operated and paid for by one person as a non-commercial web site. As such there were limitations as to how much money could be spent towards finding a secure web hosting environment that took server security as seriously as we wanted and required. Being a 'one man' beer budget operation we knew our limitations on how much we could afford to spend to support this 'hobby' web site. During the course of all these events the SNP was overwhelmed with kind offers of support from its viewership, many of whom work for some of the leading security product and services companies. SNP looked at the many kind offers of assistance that were put forward and entered into discussions with a major security product and services vendor who wished to bring the SNP under the protection and support of their publishing subsidiary. Unfortunately, every thing was proceeding quite favorably until the lawyers entered the picture. At that point the negotiations collapsed. It is unfortunate that the negotiations had to end after having consumed so much valuable time, but SNP had to thoroughly investigate that kind offer as its long term benefits to the future of SNP would have been a dream come true for any webmaster. One of the conditions of the negotiations hinged on the server that would host the SecurityNewsPortal. It was SNP's desire to make use of the BRICKServer that had been graciously offered by SAGE Inc, aka ThirdPig.com. We were already familiar with this technology which provides a single box solution that offers the hardware, software and security measures all built into one convenient package. Due to the excellent history of this product in the 'real world' we were confident that it would provide an effective solution that would permit the SNP to resume operating in a safe and secure manner. We are pleased to acknowledge that SNP is now running on a BRICKServer provided by SAGE Inc. Within 20 minutes of my phone call to ThirdPig.com the server was placed online for SNP. Within five minutes of receiving the program that controls the administrative interface to the server I was able to start transferring the interim web pages to the server. The speed with which the BRICKServer was put online and made functional for SNP's use is a testimony to all the good things that we had heard about this particular hardware, software, security product. We are proud to fly the banner for the BRICKServer on our home page. SNP would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the companies that stepped forward and offered their services, products, network hosting and other kind offers of assistance. It is because of this overwhelming show of support from the professional security community that this 'one man' beer budget operation has returned to the Internet. Your kindness will long be remembered and will motivate us to build a bigger and better SNP for your news reading enjoyment. SNP would also like to take this opportunity to personally thank and acknowledge the thousands of people ( 5000+) who took the time to write directly to us and offer us their kind words of support. We were truly touched and overwhelmed by this massive show of support and sympathy to our plight. Your kind words will be the fuel that motivates us to improve and double our efforts to make the SecurityNewsPortal even better in the future. Suffice to say that we are pleased to be back ! This will also be the last time that I send a bulk mailing to all the people who originally wrote to SNP during our 'dark hours'. This bulk mailer at Yahoo has served its purpose in keeping everyone about the latest news about the SecurityNewsPortal and now we can officially retire the mailing list. Best wishes and thank you for your support. Marq SecurityNewsPortal __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! 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