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Well, I wanted to go check a website on SurfControls “Test A Site” area at www.surfcontrol.com. Boy was I confused when I was some how redirected to http://www.websense.com/acquisition/index.html. Some how I missed it that in April of this year that Websense had announced they were going to acquire SurfControl for $400 million. In any event, it looks like this acquisition has completed. It will be quite interesting to see where the product(s) go and what this does to cost. Will this make it harder or easier for competitor 8e6 to get market share? I know this will definitely give some what of a boost to some of the website detected by Websense now, as SurfControl boasts having researchers worldwide and a larger URL list. Will we see the emergence of WebControl or Surfsense? I guess we’ll have to stay tuned.

Still getting the website setup. Just fully migrated to a new server. I am now in the process of customizing the site some more and locking down a few things on the server and in the code. Should be live soon with a lot good security news, tutorials, whitepapers, advisories, and other info — like what I am doing to my WP installation.