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Security report for theknowmedia.co

The Know Group Limited · Media · United Kingdom

Partial score · DNS & email only

75/100

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

The Know Group Limited operates a niche media platform delivering a free, 5-minute weekday newsletter focused on positive and unbiased news coverage for UK and US audiences. The website positions itself as a trusted source for uplifting news and curated recommendations, supported by a small but engaged subscriber base. The business model includes newsletter subscriptions, merchandising, and partnership opportunities, targeting general consumers seeking a more hopeful news experience. Technically, the website is built on the Squarespace CMS platform, leveraging modern web technologies and integrations such as Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Facebook Pixel, and Beehiiv for newsletter management. The site demonstrates good performance, mobile optimization, and SEO practices, with a professional and consistent design that enhances user experience. From a security perspective, the site enforces HTTPS with HSTS enabled, uses standard security headers, and avoids exposing sensitive data. However, it lacks explicit cookie policies, terms of service, security policies, and incident response contacts, which are important for compliance and user trust. Tracking technologies are present but managed with basic privacy compliance. Overall, the website is legitimate, professionally maintained, and trustworthy, with room for improvement in privacy compliance and security transparency. Strategic recommendations include implementing a cookie consent mechanism, publishing terms of service and security policies, and enhancing incident response readiness to strengthen compliance and user confidence.

Scanned

5 of 7 checks could not complete. The site may be unreachable or blocking automated scans, so the results below cover only what could be checked. Try a rescan later.

NIS2 and GDPR posture

NIS2 outside view
Not assessed
GDPR outside view
Not assessed

Both readouts depend on the site's pages, which could not be loaded in this scan.

Priority findings

1 finding rated critical or high in the checks that completed. Fix these first.

  1. SSL/TLS

    TLS encrypts the connection and proves the site is really yours. Weak or expiring certificates trigger browser warnings and put traffic at risk.

    • High

      Weak Protocols Supported

      Server supports weak protocols: TLSv1.1

      What to do: Disable TLS 1.0, TLS 1.1, and all SSL versions

      • CWE-327
      • OWASP A04:2025
      • ASVS V12.1.1

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  • TLS certificates and expiry
  • DNS records
  • SPF, DKIM and DMARC
  • Security headers
  • GDPR and NIS2 posture
  • Exposed services
  • Third-party trackers
  • Security score drift

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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
54
Network security
100
Average
77
After the cap
75

Not counted

  • Security headers: did not complete in this scan.
  • Email security: did not complete in this scan.
  • DNS health: did not complete in this scan.
  • GDPR outside view: did not complete in this scan.
  • 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 analysis did not complete for this scan. A rescan usually fills it in.

Technical notes

Notes

The website is built on Squarespace, a modern and reliable CMS platform, ensuring good infrastructure quality and performance. The tech stack includes standard analytics and marketing tools, with embedded newsletter functionality via Beehiiv. The site is mobile-optimized and SEO-friendly, with valid HTML and CSS. There is minimal technical debt visible, and the site benefits from Squarespace's hosting and CDN services. Opportunities exist to enhance accessibility features and implement advanced privacy controls to reduce technical risks related to compliance.
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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