Website reputation report

newstoday.co.uk

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

● Evidence is limited

What is this website?

newstoday.co.uk is currently classified in the News & Media category based on observed public pages. An About page was also found. Recurring page-metadata topics include today, latest, latest regional.

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

67/100Safety Score
70%Evidence Confidence
Trust Radar evidence profile Eight evidence dimensions from zero to one hundred. Exact values surround the chart. Threat Intelligence55 Domain History0 Infrastructure86 Website Security95 Security Hygiene80 Transparency57 Reputation50 Operational Stability84
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.

Independent evidence brief

What we observed about newstoday.co.uk

Updated Oct 2, 2026

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

Purpose and visible content

On its About page, the site says: NewsToday.co.uk is an online news site dedicated to bringing you all the latest global news as it happens. Our dedicated news team are committed…

Registrar and domain history

A reliable creation date was not returned by the registration lookup. The report leaves domain age unverified rather than guessing.

Connection and hosting evidence

The checked homepage returned HTTP 200 in about 2000 ms.

A valid TLS certificate was observed, expiring Dec 4, 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: 67/100. Evidence Confidence: 70%. These measure different things.

Public content profile

Pages reviewed on newstoday.co.uk

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.

UK Headline News - Local news from across the UK | News TodayUK Headline News - Local news from across the UK | News TodayNewsToday provides all the latest regional and National News across the UK. About UsAbout UsNewsToday.co.uk is an online news site dedicated to bringing you all the latest global news as it happens. Our dedicated news team are committed to keeping Vital that companies urge staff to talk about mental health, warns ex-police officer -Vital that companies urge staff to talk about mental health, warns ex-poliA former police officer has warned that “unacceptable” levels of officers are taking their own lives because of a lack of support. Contact UsContact UsIf you have enquiries or questions with regards to News Today then please feel free to submit your details in the form below and one of our representatives Applying for life insurance with type 1 diabetes: what information helps? -Applying for life insurance with type 1 diabetes: what information helps? -Life insurance forms can be awkward when a short question tries to cover years of living with type 1 diabetes. An insurer may need more than a diagnosis and a World News -World News -World News - - Subscribe for the latest regional and national World News Bizcap expands into the US with fast funding solutions for small businesses -Bizcap expands into the US with fast funding solutions for small businesses -Global alternative lender Bizcap has entered the United States, marking another major step in its international expansion. The move brings the company's News -News -News - - Subscribe for the latest regional and national News How Transfer News Can Change the Course of a Football Season -How Transfer News Can Change the Course of a Football Season -For many supporters, the transfer window is almost a competition in its own right. Long before a ball is kicked in August, fans are refreshing news feeds, Become a Contributor | Submit News Articles - News TodayBecome a Contributor | Submit News Articles - News TodayWould you like to write for us? News Today accepts guest posts and articles - if you want to become a contributor, submit an article after speaking to us via

Public page evidence

Topics and keywords observed on newstoday.co.uk

5 phrases

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

todayTitle, Meta description3 sampled pages
latestMeta description4 sampled pages
latest regionalMeta description3 sampled pages
nationalMeta description3 sampled pages
submitTitle, Meta description2 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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Verify before sensitive actions

Check the exact URL and context before payments, credentials, or downloads.

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%
0/100

Evidence is unavailable.

InfrastructureWeight 10%
86/100

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%
57/100

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%
84/100

Observed HTTP status and final connection scheme were checked.

Server-side analysis

Automated security checks

Local antivirus and phishing checks

ClamAV · homepage HTMLLocal antivirus is not enabled
Phishing.Database · exact hostnameLocal feed snapshot unavailable

Sampled scripts and pages

Resource antivirus is not enabled

0 resources checked · 21 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 scripts21
Inline scripts4
Embedded frames0
External script hosts1

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 domainnewstoday.co.uk
RegistrarUnavailable
RegisteredUnavailable
Domain ageUnavailable
ExpiresUnavailable
Registry statusesUnavailable
Report statePublished

Infrastructure

Network & hosting

Observed endpoint, not legal location
IP address149.255.58.72
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://www.newstoday.co.uk/
Endpoint149.255.58.72
NetworkUnavailable
CDN and WAFNot detected · Not detected
DNS surface5 records · 2 nameservers · 1 mail exchangers
Protection signals4 security headers · 3 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 size112,654 bytes
HTTP check duration2,000 ms
Cookies observedUnavailable
Script resources21 · 1 external hosts
Frames and sampled checks0 frames · 0 resources checked

Encrypted transport

TLS certificate

Valid when observed
StatusValid when observed
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuercountryName=US, organizationName=Let's Encrypt, commonName=YR2
Valid fromSep 5, 2026
Valid untilDec 4, 2026
Certificate names*.newstoday.co.uk · newstoday.co.uk

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.

A149.255.58.72TTL —
NSns0.thundercloud.ukTTL —
NSns1.thundercloud.ukTTL —
MX0 newstoday.co.ukTTL —
TXTv=spf1 +a +mx +ip4:149.255.58.72 include:relay.thundermail.uk ~allTTL —

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.

SPFPolicy record observed, not fully validated
DMARCMonitoring-only DMARC policy

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

4 observed
referrer-policypresent strict-origin-when-cross-origin
strict-transport-securitypresent max-age=15768000; includeSubDomains; preload
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

Bootstrap 80% Nginx 93% WordPress 95%

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.

Recommended maintenance checks

NginxReview the Nginx branch and keep security patches current. Avoid exposing detailed server version headers.
WordPressKeep WordPress core, themes and plugins updated. Remove unused plugins and review administrator accounts.

About this website

What the site says about itself

NewsToday.co.uk is an online news site dedicated to bringing you all the latest global news as it happens. Our dedicated news team are committed to keeping

View the site's About page ↗

This is publisher supplied information. The independent safety findings are shown separately.

Structured facts

Website identity & response

Public page metadata
Page titleUK Headline News - Local news from across the UK | News TodayUK Headline News - Local news from across the UK | News Today
First headingUnavailable
DescriptionNewsToday provides all the latest regional and National News across the UK.
Canonical URLhttps://www.newstoday.co.uk/
Final URLhttps://www.newstoday.co.uk/
HTTP response200 · text/html; charset=UTF-8 · 2000 ms
Languageen-US
Structured typesBreadcrumbList · CollectionPage · ListItem · Person · WebSite
Page page detectedhttps://www.newstoday.co.uk/category/world-news/About page detectedhttps://www.newstoday.co.uk/about/Contact page detectedhttps://www.newstoday.co.uk/contact-us/Support page detectedhttps://www.newstoday.co.uk/2026/09/applying-for-life-insurance-with-type-1-diabetes-what-information-helps/
1100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
en-US100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
missing100% evidence confidence
Local headers.cors wildcard origin100% evidence confidence
Dns consistency.cname present100% evidence confidence
unavailable100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
2100% evidence confidence
5100% evidence confidence
Local headers.cors credentials with wildcard100% evidence confidence
Local headers.cors present100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
Local headers.csp present100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
15768000100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
Local headers.permissions policy present100% evidence confidence

Connection path

Redirect chain

1 recorded hops
Hop 1https://www.newstoday.co.uk/

The chain is shown exactly as observed by the scanner. A redirect is not itself a malware finding, but unexpected domains or an HTTP downgrade deserve review.

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Compared with the previous scan

What changed

A comparison will appear after the next completed scan.

Explainable matching

Digital fingerprint

fingerprint-v1
calm-signal-mesh-987

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

No meaningful changes recorded yet.

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Visual evidence

Website screenshot

Screenshot of newstoday.co.uk
Earlier browser capture retained because this scan did not produce a usable replacement. It is not fresh scan evidence.

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Questions about newstoday.co.uk

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Is newstoday.co.uk safe to visit?

The latest Safety Score is 67/100 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 newstoday.co.uk?

External threat-provider coverage was unavailable for this scan, so malware status is unverified.

When was newstoday.co.uk registered?

The registry lookup did not provide a reliable creation date in this scan.

Did newstoday.co.uk 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.

How does newstoday.co.uk describe itself?

The website's About page describes its purpose in the report above. This is publisher-supplied information and is separate from independent security findings.

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.