Website reputation report

kenbenoit.net

Last checked 2 hours ago · Point-in-time assessment

75/100Technical Safety ScoreIndependent technical assessment, not a visitor rating
● Evidence is limited

What is this website?

Kenneth Benoit, Dean of the School of Social Sciences and Lee Kong Chian Professor of Computational Social Science at Singapore Management University.

No listed local patterns observedHomepage-only analysis is not a malware clearance. Read the scope and findings below.

75/100Safety Score
70%Evidence Confidence
Trust Radar evidence profile Eight evidence dimensions from zero to one hundred. Exact values surround the chart. Threat Intelligence55 Domain History95 Infrastructure83 Website Security95 Security Hygiene80 Transparency52 Reputation50 Operational Stability83
Trust RadarEight observed factors. Select one to inspect its evidence.

How to read this report

Safety Score evaluates observed signals. Evidence Confidence measures how complete, direct, fresh, and consistent those signals are.

No automated scan can guarantee that a website is safe.

Current report context

What changed since the last scan

  • No earlier report to compare
What this scan could verify · 6 observed, 0 unavailable
DNS observed
Registration lookup observed
Network observed
TLS observed
Website response observed
Website content observed

Unavailable and unperformed checks are not clean results. The detailed evidence below remains the source for each conclusion.

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Independent evidence brief

What we observed about kenbenoit.net

Updated Oct 19, 2026

The latest scan examined 10 public pages on kenbenoit.net. Website descriptions below come from the site itself. Registration, connection and threat findings were checked separately.

Purpose and visible content

On its homepage, the site says: Kenneth Benoit, Dean of the School of Social Sciences and Lee Kong Chian Professor of Computational Social Science at Singapore Management University.

  • Bio | Kenneth BenoitKenneth Benoit is Dean of the School of Social Sciences and Lee Kong Chian Professor of Computational Social…
  • Leadership | Kenneth BenoitLeadership and governance roles in universities, learned societies and journals. Committees, external reviewing and other service are on…
  • Projects | Kenneth BenoitKenneth Benoit, Dean of the School of Social Sciences and Lee Kong Chian Professor of Computational Social Science…

Registrar and domain history

Registered on May 11, 2007. Registrar: NameCheap, Inc..

Recorded expiry date: May 11, 2031. Registry data can change.

Connection and hosting evidence

The checked homepage returned HTTP 200 in about 3000 ms.

A valid TLS certificate was observed, expiring Dec 7, 2026.

Threat checks and score context

External malware-provider coverage was unavailable. The report does not treat this missing check as a clean result.

Safety Score: 75/100. Evidence Confidence: 70%. These measure different things.

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Visitor opinions remain separate from the technical Safety Score.

Public content profile

Pages reviewed on kenbenoit.net

10 of up to 10 pages

We sampled public pages from this website to understand its subject and contact paths. The titles and short descriptions below come from the website itself. They are not endorsements or independent safety findings.

Kenneth Benoit | Computational Social Science · SMU DeanKenneth Benoit, Dean of the School of Social Sciences and Lee Kong Chian Professor of Computational Social Science at Singapore Management University. Bio | Kenneth BenoitKenneth Benoit is Dean of the School of Social Sciences and Lee Kong Chian Professor of Computational Social Science, Singapore Management University. He has previously held positi Leadership | Kenneth BenoitLeadership and governance roles in universities, learned societies and journals. Committees, external reviewing and other service are on the Service page. Projects | Kenneth BenoitKenneth Benoit, Dean of the School of Social Sciences and Lee Kong Chian Professor of Computational Social Science at Singapore Management University. Publications | Kenneth BenoitKenneth Benoit, Dean of the School of Social Sciences and Lee Kong Chian Professor of Computational Social Science at Singapore Management University. Teaching | Kenneth BenoitRecent teaching Data Science and AI for Executives, LSE Executive Education Programme, 2018–2026. Introduction to Data Science and Machine Learning (ME314), LSE Summer School (Rese People | Kenneth BenoitPhD alumni Alexander Baturo (TCD, 2008), Dublin City University Francesco Cavatorta (TCD, 2003), Professor, Université Laval Ed Coughlan (TCD, 2015), Trinity College Dublin Alan Du AI-Assisted Content Analysis | Kenneth BenoitThis book, under contract with Sage, builds on the quallmer R package and on the research programme described under LLM research. quanteda | Kenneth Benoitquanteda is an R package for the Quantitative Analysis of Textual Data, with companion packages quanteda.textmodels, quanteda.textstats and quanteda.textplots. readtext is an R pac Expert surveys (PPMD) | Kenneth BenoitThe Party Policy in Modern Democracies (PPMD) dataset contains expert survey scores of the policy positions of political parties in 47 countries. It accompanies the book of the sam

Public page evidence

Topics and keywords observed on kenbenoit.net

12 phrases

These phrases were extracted locally from sampled public page metadata. They are observations, not search-volume or ranking estimates.

kenneth benoitTitle, H1, Meta description10 sampled pages
computational social scienceTitle, Meta description4 sampled pages
chian professor ofMeta description4 sampled pages
lee kong chianMeta description4 sampled pages
of social sciencesMeta description4 sampled pages
singapore management universityMeta description4 sampled pages
schoolMeta description5 sampled pages
dean ofMeta description4 sampled pages
of computationalMeta description4 sampled pages
school ofMeta description4 sampled pages
science at singaporeMeta description3 sampled pages
benoit deanMeta description3 sampled pages

At a glance

Key findings

✓

Report is current

The displayed evidence comes from the published immutable scan.

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Confidence is separate

Unavailable evidence is shown as missing and never counted as clean.

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Fully explainable

Why this score?

Versioned weights
Threat IntelligenceWeight 25%
55/100

Threat providers were unavailable. The neutral uncertainty baseline is not a clean verdict.

Domain HistoryWeight 10%
95/100

Domain registration age and expiry were checked.

InfrastructureWeight 10%
83/100

Observed DNS records and network address were checked.

Website SecurityWeight 15%
95/100

Observed certificate validity and TLS protocol were checked.

Security HygieneWeight 15%
80/100

Observed security header values were checked for basic protective settings. Empty values, disabled HSTS and unrecognized values receive no credit. This is not a complete browser-policy validation.

TransparencyWeight 5%
52/100

Observed site metadata and About page were checked. Publisher-supplied details are not independently verified.

ReputationWeight 5%
50/100

Popularity is weak context, not proof of safety. Unranked sites use a neutral baseline.

Operational StabilityWeight 15%
83/100

Observed HTTP status and final connection scheme were checked.

Server-side analysis

Automated security checks

Local antivirus and phishing checks

ClamAV · homepage HTMLNo signature match in the sampled HTML
Engine version1.5.4
Signature database date (UTC)2026-10-19T06:26:01+00:00
HTML bytes submitted27,080
Phishing.Database · exact hostnameNot listed in this snapshot
Feed downloaded (UTC)2026-10-19T18:00:08+00:00
Hosts in local snapshot386,082

Sampled scripts and pages

Resource analysis incomplete

6 resources checked · 4 script links observed on the homepage. Partial resource coverage.

ClamAV inspects the fetched homepage HTML on our server. New scans also sample up to four linked scripts and two collected internal pages, with size and time limits. Scripts are not executed. Other downloads, private server files and logged-in pages remain outside this check. A signature match needs investigation and can be a false positive. No match is not a whole-site safety guarantee.

Exact hostname lookup uses a downloaded Phishing.Database snapshot. It does not send this domain to an external lookup API or mark sibling subdomains as harmful. Not listed does not mean safe. Snapshot age is download age, not proof that every entry was recently revalidated.

Homepage HTML only · Eight local rule families · local-security-v2

Checks use the fetched page and redirect chain. Scripts are not executed, forms are not submitted, and linked files are not downloaded. This is not a malware clearance.

Page resource inventory

Linked scripts4
Inline scripts2
Embedded frames0
External script hosts0

Counts describe the sampled HTML, not every resource loaded by the browser. External resources are common and are not automatically harmful.

No listed local patterns observed. The limited rule set cannot detect every threat or behavior.

External threat intelligence

Provider coverageNot checked

Local checks do not query external reputation databases. An unavailable check is never a clean result.

Registration

Domain information

Public RDAP observation
Canonical domainkenbenoit.net
RegistrarNameCheap, Inc.
RegisteredMay 11, 2007
Domain age19 years
ExpiresMay 11, 2031
Registry statusesclient transfer prohibited
Report statePublished

Infrastructure

Network & hosting

Observed endpoint, not legal location
IP address104.198.14.52
Autonomous systemUnavailable
Network organizationUnavailable
Observed countryUnavailable
CDNNot detected
Web application firewallNot detected

At a glance

Infrastructure summary

Observed during this scan

A compact view of the connection, DNS and security surface. These observations describe what the scanner could verify at scan time and do not prove ownership or ongoing availability.

HTTP response200 · https://kenbenoit.net/
Endpoint104.198.14.52
NetworkUnavailable
CDN and WAFNot detected · Not detected
DNS surface4 records · 2 nameservers · 0 mail exchangers
Protection signals5 security headers · 0 technologies · DNSSEC unknown

Page telemetry

Observed page statistics

Safe metadata only

These counters describe the fetched response and sampled HTML. Script counts describe references in the markup, not a complete browser network log. Cookie counts cover observed response headers.

Response size27,080 bytes
HTTP check duration3,000 ms
Cookies observedUnavailable
Script resources4 · 0 external hosts
Frames and sampled checks0 frames · 6 resources checked

Encrypted transport

TLS certificate

Valid when observed
StatusValid when observed
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuercountryName=US, organizationName=Let's Encrypt, commonName=YE1
Valid fromSep 8, 2026
Valid untilDec 7, 2026
Certificate nameskenbenoit.net · www.kenbenoit.net

Resolution

DNS footprint

DNSKEY status unknown

DNSKEY presence does not verify the DNSSEC signature chain. Missing records can mean no record was returned or the lookup was unavailable.

A104.198.14.52TTL —
NSpdns1.registrar-servers.comTTL —
NSpdns2.registrar-servers.comTTL —
TXTgoogle-site-verification=kmi5QTWc6ls9Lv0yyT1q-AUAHuVawrC_DiCzjQ_ym68TTL —

DNS observations · no external lookup API

Domain email protection

Exact-host SPF and DMARC observations help the owner investigate email impersonation risks. They are separate from website malware checks and do not change the Safety Score.

SPFNo matching record returned for this exact hostname
DMARCNo matching record returned for this exact hostname

What to do next

Review the records with your mail administrator. Inventory legitimate senders and test SPF and DKIM alignment before enforcing a stricter DMARC policy. Fix duplicate records and investigate overly permissive SPF rules.

This bounded check does not send email, probe SMTP, evaluate recursive SPF includes, verify DKIM signatures or apply organizational-domain DMARC inheritance. A missing subdomain record does not prove that no inherited protection exists. A DNS timeout is unknown, not an absent record. A policy record is not proof that messages authenticate successfully.

Responsible disclosure

security.txt

RFC 9116 observation

No readable security.txt file was observed at the standard locations. This is informational and is not evidence of malware.

Browser protections

Security headers

5 observed
permissions-policypresent camera=(), microphone=(), geolocation=()
referrer-policypresent strict-origin-when-cross-origin
strict-transport-securitypresent max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains
x-content-type-optionspresent nosniff
x-frame-optionspresent SAMEORIGIN

Response headers

Cookie protections

Passive observation

No Set-Cookie header was observed on the sampled homepage response. Other pages may set cookies separately.

Detected stack

Technologies

Not confidently detected

Versions are shown only when publicly exposed by the page or response headers. An observed version is not, by itself, proof of a vulnerability.

JavaScript library advisories

JavaScript advisory analysis could not be completed or no eligible script files were sampled. No clean result is implied.

Publisher supplied

Public contact details

These details were observed on the website, not independently verified as an active support channel.

Emailkbenoit@smu.edu.sgSource: https://kenbenoit.net/

Structured facts

Website identity & response

Public page metadata
Page titleKenneth Benoit | Computational Social Science · SMU Dean
First headingKenneth Benoit
DescriptionKenneth Benoit, Dean of the School of Social Sciences and Lee Kong Chian Professor of Computational Social Science at Singapore Management University.
Canonical URLhttps://kenbenoit.net/
Final URLhttps://kenbenoit.net/
HTTP response200 · text/html; charset=UTF-8 · 3000 ms
Languageen
Structured typesPerson · WebSite
Page page detectedhttps://kenbenoit.net/bio/
missing100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
en100% evidence confidence
31536000100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
Local headers.csp present100% evidence confidence
Local headers.cors wildcard origin100% evidence confidence
Local headers.cors present100% evidence confidence
Local headers.cors credentials with wildcard100% evidence confidence
Local headers.hsts preload100% evidence confidence
4100% evidence confidence
2100% evidence confidence
Dns consistency.mail route count100% evidence confidence
unavailable100% evidence confidence
Dns consistency.cname present100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
Local headers.permissions usb restricted100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
Local headers.permissions payment restricted100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence

Connection path

Redirect chain

0 recorded hops

No redirect hop was recorded for the sampled homepage.

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Compared with the previous scan

What changed

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Explainable matching

Digital fingerprint

fingerprint-v1
steady-harbor-web-082

Comparable components help find technically related websites. A match does not prove common ownership.

DnsHashed private comparison value
TechnologiesHashed private comparison value

Material changes only

Change history

Show change history

No meaningful changes recorded yet.

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Visual evidence

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Questions about kenbenoit.net

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Is kenbenoit.net safe to visit?

The latest Safety Score is 75/100 with 70% Evidence Confidence. This is a point-in-time assessment of observed technical signals, not a guarantee. Check the exact address and avoid entering payment details if anything looks unusual.

Did the scan detect malware on kenbenoit.net?

ClamAV found no signature match in the sampled homepage HTML. External scripts, downloads and private server files were not checked. This is not a whole-site malware clearance.

When was kenbenoit.net registered?

The public registry record shows May 11, 2007. Registration details may be privacy-protected or updated later.

Did kenbenoit.net have a valid TLS certificate?

The scanner observed a valid TLS certificate using TLSv1.3. A valid certificate alone does not establish that the site is safe.

Can a paid listing change this website's score?

No. Premium placement and owner-supplied pages are labelled separately. Technical evidence, the Safety Score and moderation decisions remain independent.

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