On January 2nd, between the hours of 11:00 AM and 6:00 PM, Newsdemon.com experienced a critical error with their credit card processor which prevented successful checkout for those who had attempted to pay via Credit Card.

We at Newsdemon.com have since repaired this issue, and we are happy to report that credit card methods of payment are now fully operational.

This had only effected those customers who attempted to pay by credit card only. All PayPal methods of payment, including PayPal transactions that are paid by credit card, are not related to and have not been affected by this error as they are separate payment processors and systems.

The issue that caused this error involved a dropped communication between our server to our payment processor. No information gathered or stored on our servers were ever at risk of being compromised. The error solely caused an unsuccessful transaction.

At 6:00 PM today, after extensive testing, Newsdemon.com has taken measures to remove the error, allowing customers to checkout via credit card.

Any questions or concerns regarding this matter specifically can be directed via email at support@newsdemon.com. We apprecitate your patronage and greatly apologize for the inconvenience this may have caused.

150 Day Binary Retention

Newsdemon.com is proud to announce a 70% increase in retention rate for single and multi-part binary newsgroups.  This new level of retention allows customers to access articles posted to any Usenet group up to 150 days prior

The retention rate of binaries translates into the longest amount of time an article would be available on any particular Newsgroup.

The increase in retention does not require any modifications from Newsdemon.com members on either their newsreaders or account settings. Members should immediately see an increase in the age of headers available on any particular binary newsgroup.

This benefit is for all existing and potential new members of Newsdemon.com at no additional cost. Newsdemon.com will also continue to provide the same blazing speed through simultaneous, SSL encrypted Usenet access while being completely uncensored as before.

The new mark of 150 days of binary retention demonstrates another progressive step by Newsdemon.com to provide dependable, world-class, premium Usenet access to all its members at affordable prices.

Mozilla pushed out an update to its e-mail client Thunderbird last friday. The 2.0.0.17 update, for both Windows and Mac versions, corrects two potential exploits. Centered around Newsgroup functionality and an obscure UTF-8 hyperlink spoof, they could’ve allowed an attacker to execute arbitrary code.

A spate of bug fixes, memory leaks, and other less severe tweaks were addressed, too. The full changelog can be read here.

We encourage all users of Thunderbird to update as soon as possible.