Website reputation report

productsafety.gov.au

Last checked 13 hours ago · Point-in-time assessment

● Evidence is limited

What is this website?

productsafety.gov.au is currently classified in the News & Media category based on observed public pages. An About page was also found. The sampled pages were marked as English-language. Recurring page-metadata topics include accc product safety, products, safe.

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

65/100Safety 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 Infrastructure87 Website Security95 Security Hygiene70 Transparency56 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 productsafety.gov.au

Updated Oct 1, 2026

The latest scan examined 10 public pages on productsafety.gov.au. 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: Lists all news, media releases and alerts on the Product Safety Australia website.

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 Nov 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: 65/100. Evidence Confidence: 70%. These measure different things.

Public content profile

Pages reviewed on productsafety.gov.au

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.

Hashtags found on the website: #safeproduct . These are site-supplied labels, not search rankings.

Home | ACCC Product SafetyACCC Product Safety is a website run by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), and provides information to consumers and small businesses about product safety, News | ACCC Product SafetyLists all news, media releases and alerts on the Product Safety Australia website. Contact us | ACCC Product SafetyContact us to make an enquiry or report an unsafe product. Businesses can submit a recall, and submit a mandatory or voluntary supplier report. About us | ACCC Product SafetyWe are Australia’s national consumer product safety regulator, protecting consumers from unsafe products. Find out what we do at product safety, our latest news and how to get in c About the ACCC | ACCC Product SafetyProduct safety regulation in Australia is a shared responsibility between the ACCC and the states and territories. Shop online for products that are safe | ACCC Product SafetyOnline shopping can bring many benefits such as wider choice, time and cost savings. When shopping online, be aware of product safety and your rights as a consumer. Buy safe second-hand products online | ACCC Product SafetyWhile sellers should make sure products they sell are safe, there are steps that you can take to reduce product safety risks when buying second-hand products online. Respond to recalls and unsafe products | ACCC Product SafetyAustralians expect that the products they buy are safe. When a product is unsafe, suppliers have a responsibility to remove the risk as quickly as possible. Use cosmetic and fashion products safely | ACCC Product SafetyOur guides help you to use cosmetic and fashion products safely. We provide practical tips to use when you buy and use products. Use garden and outdoor products safely | ACCC Product SafetyLearn about the safe use of garden and outdoor products including ladders and ride-on lawn mowers.

Public page evidence

Topics and keywords observed on productsafety.gov.au

12 phrases

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

accc product safetyTitle, Meta description10 sampled pages
productsTitle, H1, Meta description7 sampled pages
safeTitle, H1, Meta description4 sampled pages
products safelyTitle, H1, Meta description2 sampled pages
unsafeTitle, H1, Meta description4 sampled pages
unsafe productsTitle, H1, Meta description3 sampled pages
australiaH1, Meta description4 sampled pages
thatTitle, H1, Meta description3 sampled pages
whenMeta description4 sampled pages
consumerH1, Meta description3 sampled pages
regulator protecting consumersH1, Meta description2 sampled pages
consumer productH1, Meta description2 sampled pages

At a glance

Key findings

✓

Report is current

The displayed evidence comes from the published immutable scan.

i

Confidence is separate

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

!

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%
87/100

Observed DNS records and network address were checked.

Website SecurityWeight 15%
95/100

Observed certificate validity and TLS protocol were checked.

Security HygieneWeight 15%
70/100

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%
56/100

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 · 8 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 scripts8
Inline scripts2
Embedded frames0
External script hosts3

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 domainproductsafety.gov.au
RegistrarDepartment of Finance
RegisteredUnavailable
Domain ageUnavailable
ExpiresUnavailable
Registry statusesclient delete prohibited · client update prohibited · server renew prohibited
Report statePublished

Infrastructure

Network & hosting

Observed endpoint, not legal location
IP address202.14.188.20
Autonomous systemUnavailable
Network organizationUnavailable
Observed countryUnavailable
CDNAkamai
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.productsafety.gov.au/
Endpoint202.14.188.20
NetworkUnavailable
CDN and WAFAkamai · Not detected
DNS surface7 records · 4 nameservers · 1 mail exchangers
Protection signals3 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 size86,095 bytes
HTTP check duration2,000 ms
Cookies observedUnavailable
Script resources8 · 3 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=YE2
Valid fromAug 6, 2026
Valid untilNov 4, 2026
Certificate namesproductsafety.gov.au

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.

A202.14.188.20TTL —
NSdns1.sge.netTTL —
NSdns2.sge.netTTL —
NSdns3.sge.netTTL —
NSdns4.sge.netTTL —
MX10 accc-in-155.sge.netTTL —
TXTv=spf1 include:sge.net -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
DMARCPolicy record observed, not fully validated

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
StatusPublished and readable
Security contacts1
Policy linkObserved
ExpiryMissing or expired

This is a public vulnerability-reporting contact file. Its presence does not prove that the website is safe and does not change the independent Safety Score.

Browser protections

Security headers

3 observed
strict-transport-securitypresent max-age=15768000
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% Google Analytics 94% Tailwind CSS 72%

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.

About this website

What the site says about itself

Lists all news, media releases and alerts on the Product Safety Australia website.

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 titleHome | ACCC Product Safety
First headingWe are Australia’s consumer product safety regulator, protecting consumers from unsafe products.
DescriptionACCC Product Safety is a website run by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), and provides information to consumers and small businesses about product safety, recalls and injury reporting.
Canonical URLhttps://www.productsafety.gov.au/
Final URLhttps://www.productsafety.gov.au/
HTTP response200 · text/html; charset=UTF-8 · 2000 ms
Languageen
Structured typesNone observed
Page page detectedhttps://www.productsafety.gov.au/consumers/know-your-product-safety-rights/shop-online-for-products-that-are-safeAbout page detectedhttps://www.productsafety.gov.au/about-us/product-safety-news/news
1100% evidence confidence
en100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
Security txt.expires valid100% evidence confidence
Security txt.has canonical100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
present100% evidence confidence
Local headers.cors wildcard origin100% evidence confidence
Dns consistency.cname present100% evidence confidence
unavailable100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
4100% evidence confidence
7100% 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
Local headers.hsts include subdomains100% evidence confidence
15768000100% evidence confidence
Local headers.hsts preload100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
Local headers.permissions policy present100% evidence confidence

Connection path

Redirect chain

1 recorded hops
Hop 1https://www.productsafety.gov.au/

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

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Explainable matching

Digital fingerprint

fingerprint-v1
deep-signal-web-053

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

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Questions about productsafety.gov.au

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Is productsafety.gov.au safe to visit?

The latest Safety Score is 65/100 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 productsafety.gov.au?

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

When was productsafety.gov.au registered?

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

Did productsafety.gov.au 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 productsafety.gov.au 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.