Gizmodo · Media · N/a
Medium risk. 2 critical or high findings in SSL/TLS and GDPR outside view.
Gizmodo is a well-established digital media company specializing in technology news, reviews, science, and entertainment content. The website targets technology enthusiasts and the general public interested in the latest tech trends. It operates on an advertising-supported business model and maintains a strong market position as a reputable source of tech information. The site is built on WordPress CMS and leverages modern web technologies including Google Tag Manager, DoubleClick ads, and various ad SDKs, indicating a mature digital infrastructure. The hosting and DNS services are provided by OVH sas and Cloudflare respectively, ensuring reliable performance and security. Security posture is generally good with HTTPS enforced and domain registration protections in place, although DNSSEC is not enabled. Privacy compliance is weak due to the absence of visible privacy and cookie policies, which is a notable gap for GDPR and other regulations. The site uses extensive third-party advertising and tracking services, which may impact user privacy. Overall, the website is professional, trustworthy, and content-rich, but could improve transparency and compliance by publishing privacy and security policies.
Scanned
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.
2 findings rated critical or high. Fix these first.
TLS encrypts the connection and proves the site is really yours. Weak or expiring certificates trigger browser warnings and put traffic at risk.
Could not establish secure connection to retrieve certificate information
What to do: Check if the server is accessible and SSL/TLS is properly configured
These are the privacy signals visitors and data protection authorities look for under GDPR.
GDPR requires explicit consent for non-essential cookies
What to do: Implement a cookie consent banner that appears on first visit
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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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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 gizmodo.com, from OffSeq Breach.
15 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.
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