Boston Globe Media Partners · Media · United States
Medium risk. 5 critical or high findings in Security headers, Email security and 2 other checks.
Boston.com is a leading regional digital media platform operated by Boston Globe Media Partners, providing local news, sports, weather, and event information primarily for the Greater Boston area. The website enjoys a strong market position as a trusted source of timely and relevant content for a broad general audience. Its business model is primarily advertising-supported, leveraging multiple ad networks and programmatic advertising technologies to monetize its large visitor base. Technically, the website is built on WordPress and employs a modern technology stack including Google Tag Manager, New Relic for performance monitoring, OneTrust for consent management, and various advertising and analytics platforms such as Google Publisher Tags, Amazon APS, and Prebid.js. The site is mobile optimized and demonstrates good SEO and accessibility practices, although some accessibility features could be enhanced. From a security perspective, Boston.com enforces HTTPS with strong SSL configurations and implements key security headers such as Content Security Policy and X-Frame-Options. The site also integrates cookie consent mechanisms compliant with GDPR and CCPA regulations. However, explicit security policies, incident response information, and vulnerability disclosure programs are not publicly available, representing areas for improvement. Overall, Boston.com presents a professional, trustworthy, and well-maintained digital presence with extensive content and advertising integration. The absence of WHOIS data limits domain registration trust analysis, but the brand's established reputation and consistent content quality mitigate concerns. Strategic recommendations include publishing detailed security policies, enhancing accessibility, and establishing formal vulnerability disclosure channels.
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NIS2 Art. 21(2)
This scan rated NIS2 with an earlier keyword method that is no longer shown; rescan for the per-article view. Risk management, continuity, supply chain, training, MFA, management oversight (Art. 20) and incident reporting (Art. 23) need internal evidence, and Guard cannot tell whether NIS2 applies to this organisation.
GDPR is indicative only, based on publicly visible signals: Articles 7, 12, 13 and 32 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and Article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive. Not a certification or legal assessment.
5 findings rated critical or high. Fix these first.
Security headers are instructions your web server sends to every visitor’s browser. Missing ones leave visitors more exposed to attacks such as clickjacking and injected scripts.
Prevents clickjacking attacks
What to do: Add "X-Frame-Options: DENY" or "X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN"
SPF, DKIM and DMARC stop others sending email that looks like it comes from your domain, a common route to phishing and invoice fraud.
DKIM selector 'google' uses 944-bit key
What to do: Use at least 2048-bit RSA keys for DKIM
TLS encrypts the connection and proves the site is really yours. Weak or expiring certificates trigger browser warnings and put traffic at risk.
Server supports weak protocols: TLSv1.1
What to do: Disable TLS 1.0, TLS 1.1, and all SSL versions
SSL certificate uses 256-bit key, which is considered weak
What to do: Use at least 2048-bit RSA or 256-bit ECC key
DNS sends visitors and email to the right servers. Misconfigured records can cause outages or let someone redirect your traffic.
SPF record has permissive policy allowing any server to send email
What to do: Use -all or ~all qualifier for better email security
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Each check with its score, findings and the evidence it collected.
The security score runs 0–100, higher is better. It is the plain average of the security checks that completed in this scan, each counted equally. A check that could not run is left out: it counts neither as a pass nor as a fail.
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Not counted
Findings that cap the score at 49
Each of these is serious on its own, so while any is present the site cannot rate better than high risk, however good the other checks are.
Partial scans
When the site blocks Guard or most checks cannot run, the score covers only the checks that ran (usually DNS and email), is capped at 75 and is shown as partial, without a risk level.
Risk levels
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Leaked records that mention boston.com, from OffSeq Breach.
16 subdomains affected
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Business context, site observations and technical notes gathered during the scan, and the standards behind each reference.
Automated reading of the public site. Ratings are indicative.
Reference chips under each finding point to the standard, regulation or specification the finding relates to. They are taken from the official datasets below and mapped conservatively: a finding with no defensible link shows none. NIS2 and GDPR references mark where a finding is relevant evidence, not a compliance verdict. Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2690 binds digital infrastructure and digital service providers; for other entities it is the most detailed public reading of the Article 21 measures. WCAG, EN 301 549, European Accessibility Act and Web Accessibility Directive references name the requirement an automated accessibility rule relates to; they are not a conformance verdict.
Retrieved 2026-10-25
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