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Security report for news.lv

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Medium risk. 8 critical or high findings in GDPR outside view, Security headers and 1 other check.

Security score

62/100

Risk levelMedium

0–100, higher is better. How it is calculated

The website news.lv is currently inaccessible due to a Cloudflare Turnstile CAPTCHA challenge page that blocks direct access to its content. This challenge page prevents extraction of meaningful business, contact, or policy information. The site appears to be protected by Cloudflare's security services, indicating an intent to mitigate automated access or attacks. However, the lack of accessible content, privacy policies, or contact details severely limits the ability to assess the business or security posture comprehensively. The technical infrastructure relies on Cloudflare's platform, but no CMS or additional frameworks are detectable. Security best practices such as visible security headers and privacy compliance mechanisms are absent from the accessible content. Overall, the site currently presents a low trust profile due to the lack of accessible information and transparency.

Scanned

NIS2 and GDPR posture

GDPR outside view
10/ 100 · Critical
Checks completed
7of 7

NIS2 Art. 21(2)

  1. (a) Risk analysis and security policies: Not visible from outside
  2. (b) Incident handling: One indicator
  3. (c) Business continuity, backups and crisis management: Not visible from outside
  4. (d) Supply chain security: Not visible from outside
  5. (e) Secure acquisition, development and maintenance, including vulnerability handling: Partly checked
  6. (f) Assessing the effectiveness of security measures: Not visible from outside
  7. (g) Cyber hygiene and security training: Not visible from outside
  8. (h) Cryptography and encryption: Partly checked
  9. (i) HR security, access control and asset management: One indicator
  10. (j) Multi-factor authentication and secured communications: Not visible from outside

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.

Priority findings

8 findings rated critical or high. Fix these first.

  1. GDPR outside view

    These are the privacy signals visitors and data protection authorities look for under GDPR.

    • Critical

      EU business without adequate privacy measures

      EU businesses are subject to strict GDPR requirements

      What to do: Implement comprehensive GDPR compliance including privacy policy, cookie consent, and data protection measures

    • High

      No Privacy Policy found

      GDPR requires a clear and accessible privacy policy

      What to do: Add a comprehensive privacy policy page and link to it prominently

    • High

      No Cookie Policy found

      GDPR requires clear information about cookie usage

      What to do: Add a dedicated cookie policy explaining cookie usage and purposes

  2. Security headers

    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.

    • High

      Missing Strict-Transport-Security header

      Forces HTTPS connections

      What to do: Add "Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload"

      • CWE-319
      • OWASP A04:2025
      • ASVS V3.4.1
    • High

      Missing Content-Security-Policy header

      Controls resources the browser is allowed to load

      What to do: Implement a Content-Security-Policy appropriate for your application

      • ASVS V3.4.3
      • OWASP Secure Headers: OWASP Secure Headers Project recommends Content-Security-Policy: default-src 'self'; form-action 'self'; base-uri 'self'; object-src 'none';…

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Results by check

Each check with its score, findings and the evidence it collected.

How this score is calculated

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.

Counted in this score

SSL/TLS
75
Security headers
55
Email security
70
DNS health
60
Network security
100
GDPR outside view
10
Average
62

Not counted

  • NIS2 outside view: Re-weights evidence from the TLS, email, DNS, network and hygiene checks, so counting it would count that evidence twice. Shown on its own.
  • OffSeq Observations: An AI reading of the site, useful context but not reproducible evidence. Shown on its own.

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.

  • The certificate is not trusted by browsers
  • The website is not served over HTTPS
  • A database, remote desktop, file-sharing or Telnet service is reachable from the internet
  • The page loads a script from a compromised source
  • The domain registration has expired
  • SPF authorises every server to send mail as the domain

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

  • Critical0–25
  • High26–49
  • Medium50–75
  • Low76–100

Technical appendix

Business context, site observations and technical notes gathered during the scan, and the standards behind each reference.

Business context

Business profile

Due to the content being blocked by a security challenge, no direct business intelligence can be derived. The domain is active and uses Cloudflare nameservers, suggesting a legitimate operation behind the protection. No company name, description, or market positioning is available. The site likely targets a general news audience given the domain name, but this cannot be confirmed. No partnerships or subsidiaries are identifiable from the accessible data.

Security posture

The website employs Cloudflare's WAF and Turnstile CAPTCHA to protect against automated threats, which is a positive security measure. However, the absence of visible security headers, privacy policies, or incident response contacts reduces the overall security maturity. No vulnerabilities or exposed sensitive data are visible due to the content being blocked. The security score is moderate based on the use of Cloudflare but limited by lack of transparency and policy disclosures.

Recommendations

  1. Provide a publicly accessible landing page with basic business and contact information to improve trust and transparency.
  2. Publish privacy, cookie, and terms of service policies to comply with GDPR and other regulations.
  3. Implement and expose security headers such as Content-Security-Policy and X-Frame-Options.
  4. Ensure SSL/TLS configuration is robust and certificates are valid and visible.
  5. Consider providing a security.txt file and incident response contact information to enhance security posture.
Site observations

Automated reading of the public site. Ratings are indicative.

Cloudflare detected. Detected Cloudflare Turnstile CAPTCHA challenge page blocking access to actual website content. These observations may be incomplete. For a fuller analysis, contact guard@offseq.com.

Business

Content quality
poor

Technology

Stack
Cloudflare Turnstile, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3
Performance
moderate
Mobile
basic
Accessibility
basic
SEO
poor

Security

Observed score
40/100
Good practices seen
  • Use of Cloudflare WAF and Turnstile CAPTCHA for bot mitigation

Analytics and tracking

Tracking level
minimal
Privacy practices
poor

Advertising

Transparency
poor

Site quality

Design
poor
User experience
poor
Content relevance
poor
Navigation
poor
Professionalism
poor
Trustworthiness
low

Key observations

  1. Website content is blocked behind a Cloudflare Turnstile CAPTCHA challenge.
  2. No visible business or contact information on the landing page.
  3. No privacy, cookie, or terms of service policies found.
  4. No forms or data collection fields visible except hidden CAPTCHA response input.
  5. No social media links, emails, phone numbers, or addresses found.
  6. Website uses Cloudflare for security and performance.
  7. No SEO or accessibility metadata present.
  8. No visible security headers detected in HTML content.
  9. No analytics or advertising scripts detected beyond Cloudflare challenge.
  10. Website title is generic 'Just a moment...' indicating a challenge page.
Technical notes

Notes

The site is hosted behind Cloudflare, utilizing their Turnstile CAPTCHA for bot mitigation. The HTML content is minimal and serves only to present the challenge page. No CMS or additional frameworks are detectable. Performance is likely moderate due to Cloudflare's CDN, but user experience is poor due to the blocking challenge. Mobile optimization and accessibility are basic given the minimal content. SEO is poor as no meta tags or structured data are present. Technical debt cannot be assessed due to lack of content.
Standards and sources

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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