When Typepad was down yesterday, we believe it was due, at least in part, to a cyber attack.

As part of resolving the issue, we set in place some blocks against sources of high traffic. It appears that your IP address for some reason was caught by the block.

We are working with our systems operations team to see if your IP address can be whitelisted or the rule adjusted so that you can access Typepad again.

We apologize for the problem, as it is not intentional but is due to an overly aggressive block against cyber attacks.

A good explanation (and I do like the term whitelisted), but I still couldn't access the blog itself nor the dashboard that allows me to compose, edit and perform other functions related to publishing PNG Attitude.

The matter was then escalated to Typepad's security rules team and yesterday I, like you, was able to call up the blog on demand.

Overnight I did some more fiddling and decided that it was probably the password that was giving me problems. So I started that process from scratch and - bingo! - this morning I regained full control of the blog.