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Security report for wsj.com

Media · N/a

Medium risk. 6 critical or high findings in Security headers and GDPR outside view.

Security score

73/100

Risk levelMedium

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

The website www.wsj.com is currently inaccessible due to a security challenge page implemented via captcha-delivery.com, indicating the presence of a Web Application Firewall (WAF) or bot mitigation service. This prevents extraction of meaningful content, metadata, or business contact information. The domain is a well-known media brand, but WHOIS data is unavailable or protected, limiting domain registration insights. The technical infrastructure includes bot mitigation scripts but no further technology details can be confirmed from the provided content. Security posture cannot be fully assessed due to blocked content, but the presence of WAF indicates a proactive security approach. Overall, the site is legitimate but inaccessible for detailed analysis under current conditions.

Scanned

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NIS2 and GDPR posture

GDPR outside view
50/ 100 · Medium
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

6 findings rated critical or high. Fix these first.

  1. 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 X-Frame-Options header

      Prevents clickjacking attacks

      What to do: Add "X-Frame-Options: DENY" or "X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN"

    • 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';…

  2. GDPR outside view

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

    • 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

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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
100
Security headers
20
Email security
85
DNS health
85
Network security
100
GDPR outside view
50
Average
73

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 blocked content, detailed business intelligence is unavailable. The domain is recognized as a major media outlet, likely operating at enterprise scale within the media sector. No partner or subsidiary domains were identified from the limited content. The business model likely revolves around digital news and subscription services, targeting a broad audience interested in news and financial information.

Security posture

The presence of a captcha-delivery.com iframe strongly suggests the use of a WAF or bot mitigation service to protect against automated threats. However, no security headers or SSL configuration details were available for analysis. The lack of accessible content prevents evaluation of privacy policies, incident response contacts, or vulnerability disclosures. The security posture appears cautious but cannot be fully validated.

Recommendations

  1. Provide a publicly accessible version or staging environment for security and compliance audits.
  2. Ensure WHOIS data is available or provide verified registrant information to improve trust signals.
  3. Publish clear privacy, cookie, and terms of service policies accessible without security challenges.
  4. Implement security headers and document security best practices publicly.
  5. Maintain transparency on incident response and vulnerability disclosure processes.
Site observations

Automated reading of the public site. Ratings are indicative.

Generic detected. Page content is a security challenge with captcha-delivery.com iframe and minimal HTML content indicating WAF or bot protection blocking access. These observations may be incomplete. For a fuller analysis, contact guard@offseq.com.

Business

Technology

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captcha-delivery.com script

Analytics and tracking

Site quality

Key observations

  1. Website content is blocked by a security challenge (captcha-delivery.com) indicating WAF or bot protection.
  2. No metadata, forms, or business contact information could be extracted due to blocked content.
  3. WHOIS data is unavailable or protected, limiting domain registration insights.
  4. External scripts are related to captcha and bot mitigation services.
  5. No privacy, cookie, or terms of service policies detected in the provided HTML.
  6. No social media or contact details found in the provided content.
Technical notes

Notes

The technical footprint visible is limited to captcha-delivery.com scripts used for bot mitigation. No CMS, frameworks, or hosting details are discernible. The site is likely hosted on a robust infrastructure given the brand, but no performance or SEO data can be extracted. The WAF presence impacts accessibility and analysis. Modernization opportunities include improving transparency and accessibility for compliance and security audits.
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

Earlier scans of this domain

  1. 73/100Medium26 findingsView report
  2. 73/100 +4Medium26 findingsView report
  3. 69/100Medium24 findingsView report
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