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URL: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/09/30/least-secure-authentication-method/
Submission: On October 01 via api from TR — Scanned from DE
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Verdicts

Summary

This website contacted 8 IPs in 2 countries across 4 domains to perform 18 HTTP transactions. The main IP is 34.223.135.160, located in Boardman, United States and belongs to AMAZON-02, US. The main domain is www.helpnetsecurity.com. The Cisco Umbrella rank of the primary domain is 656271.
TLS certificate: Issued by Amazon RSA 2048 M02 on June 14th 2024. Valid for: a year.
This is the only time www.helpnetsecurity.com was scanned on urlscan.io!

urlscan.io Verdict: No classification

Domain & IP information

IP Address AS Autonomous System
8 34.223.135.160 16509 (AMAZON-02)
1 2a00:1450:400... 15169 (GOOGLE)
1 52.85.65.119 16509 (AMAZON-02)
1 2600:9000:26d... 16509 (AMAZON-02)
3 2a00:1450:400... 15169 (GOOGLE)
3 108.138.36.113 16509 (AMAZON-02)
1 18.195.235.189 16509 (AMAZON-02)
18 8
8    34.223.135.160 (Boardman, United States)

ASN16509 (AMAZON-02, US)
PTR: ec2-34-223-135-160.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com
www.helpnetsecurity.com
1    2a00:1450:4001:81d::200a (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

ASN15169 (GOOGLE, US)
fonts.googleapis.com
1    52.85.65.119 (United States)

ASN16509 (AMAZON-02, US)
PTR: server-52-85-65-119.muc50.r.cloudfront.net
img2.helpnetsecurity.com
1    2600:9000:26db:3e00:c:7d55:b3c0:93a1 (United States)

ASN16509 (AMAZON-02, US)
cdn.matomo.cloud
3    2a00:1450:4001:82f::2003 (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

ASN15169 (GOOGLE, US)
fonts.gstatic.com
3    108.138.36.113 (United States)

ASN16509 (AMAZON-02, US)
PTR: server-108-138-36-113.muc50.r.cloudfront.net
img.helpnetsecurity.com
1    18.195.235.189 (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

ASN16509 (AMAZON-02, US)
PTR: ec2-18-195-235-189.eu-central-1.compute.amazonaws.com
helpnetsecurity.matomo.cloud
Apex Domain
Subdomains		 Transfer
12 helpnetsecurity.com
www.helpnetsecurity.com — Cisco Umbrella Rank: 656271
img2.helpnetsecurity.com
img.helpnetsecurity.com
122 KB
3 gstatic.com
fonts.gstatic.com
54 KB
2 matomo.cloud
cdn.matomo.cloud — Cisco Umbrella Rank: 19248
helpnetsecurity.matomo.cloud
40 KB
1 googleapis.com
fonts.googleapis.com — Cisco Umbrella Rank: 46
1 KB
18 4
Domain Requested by
8 www.helpnetsecurity.com www.helpnetsecurity.com
3 img.helpnetsecurity.com www.helpnetsecurity.com
3 fonts.gstatic.com fonts.googleapis.com
1 helpnetsecurity.matomo.cloud cdn.matomo.cloud
1 cdn.matomo.cloud www.helpnetsecurity.com
1 img2.helpnetsecurity.com www.helpnetsecurity.com
1 fonts.googleapis.com www.helpnetsecurity.com
18 7

This site contains links to these domains. Also see Links.

Domain
twitter.com
www.linkedin.com
www.facebook.com
helpnet.link
Subject Issuer Validity Valid
*.helpnetsecurity.com
Amazon RSA 2048 M02		 2024-06-14 -
2025-07-12		 a year crt.sh
upload.video.google.com
WR2		 2024-08-26 -
2024-11-18		 3 months crt.sh
img2.helpnetsecurity.com
Amazon RSA 2048 M03		 2024-06-13 -
2025-07-12		 a year crt.sh
cdn.matomo.cloud
Amazon RSA 2048 M02		 2024-09-25 -
2025-10-23		 a year crt.sh
*.gstatic.com
WR2		 2024-08-26 -
2024-11-18		 3 months crt.sh
img.helpnetsecurity.com
Amazon RSA 2048 M02		 2024-06-13 -
2025-07-12		 a year crt.sh
*.matomo.cloud
Amazon RSA 2048 M02		 2024-05-21 -
2025-06-19		 a year crt.sh

This page contains 1 frames:

Primary Page: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/09/30/least-secure-authentication-method/
Frame ID: 6853E8A1189BF7F0004F0445EE1DD067
Requests: 20 HTTP requests in this frame

Screenshot
Live screenshot
Full Image

Page Title

The most common authentication method is also the least secure - Help Net Security

Detected technologies

Overall confidence: 100%
Detected patterns
  • <link rel=["']stylesheet["'] [^>]+/wp-(?:content|includes)/
  • /wp-(?:content|includes)/
Overall confidence: 100%
Detected patterns
  • <!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast (?:WordPress )?SEO plugin v([\d.]+) -
Overall confidence: 100%
Detected patterns
  • <link[^>]* href=[^>]+fonts\.(?:googleapis|google)\.com

Page Statistics

18
Requests

100 %
HTTPS

43 %
IPv6

4
Domains

7
Subdomains

8
IPs

2
Countries

218 kB
Transfer

522 kB
Size

1
Cookies

Redirected requests

There were HTTP redirect chains for the following requests:

18 HTTP transactions

Resource
Path		 Size
x-fer		 Type
MIME-Type
Primary Request /
www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/09/30/least-secure-authentication-method/ 		71 KB
18 KB 		Document
General
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Download Go to
Full URL
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/09/30/least-secure-authentication-method/
Protocol
H2
Security
TLS 1.2, ECDHE_RSA, AES_128_GCM
Server
34.223.135.160 Boardman, United States, ASN16509 (AMAZON-02, US),
Reverse DNS
ec2-34-223-135-160.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com
Software
Apache/2.4.54 (Debian) / PHP/8.0.27
Resource Hash
d0a89883092998ec6e5a92f52b84bd15eb34e2d8dff3892be83e406c223e5d0b

Request headers

Upgrade-Insecure-Requests
1
User-Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/129.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Response headers

content-encoding
gzip
content-length
18123
content-type
text/html; charset=UTF-8
date
Tue, 01 Oct 2024 02:15:08 GMT
link
<https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/" <https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/312547>; rel="alternate"; title="JSON"; type="application/json" <https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/?p=312547>; rel=shortlink
server
Apache/2.4.54 (Debian)
vary
Accept-Encoding
x-powered-by
PHP/8.0.27
x-ua-compatible
IE=edge
form-themes.css
www.helpnetsecurity.com/wp-content/plugins/mailchimp-for-wp/assets/css/ 		7 KB
1 KB 		Stylesheet
General
Check archive.org
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Full URL
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/wp-content/plugins/mailchimp-for-wp/assets/css/form-themes.css?ver=4.9.15
Requested by
Host: www.helpnetsecurity.com
URL: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/09/30/least-secure-authentication-method/
Protocol
H2
Security
TLS 1.2, ECDHE_RSA, AES_128_GCM
Server
34.223.135.160 Boardman, United States, ASN16509 (AMAZON-02, US),
Reverse DNS
ec2-34-223-135-160.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com
Software
Apache/2.4.54 (Debian) /
Resource Hash
bcd3e29ac3fd83b7c69ff7b7476b67aa0c2d07b4bf5089e1f767823856c78c19

Request headers

User-Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/129.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Referer
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/09/30/least-secure-authentication-method/

Response headers

content-encoding
gzip
accept-ranges
bytes
content-length
1250
date
Tue, 01 Oct 2024 02:15:09 GMT
content-type
text/css; charset=utf-8
last-modified
Wed, 04 Sep 2024 11:02:50 GMT
server
Apache/2.4.54 (Debian)
vary
Accept-Encoding
css
fonts.googleapis.com/ 		18 KB
1 KB 		Stylesheet
General
Check archive.org
Download Go to
Full URL
https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto%3A300%2C300i%2C400%2C400i%2C500%2C500i%2C700%2C700i&subset=latin%2Clatin-ext&display=swap
Requested by
Host: www.helpnetsecurity.com
URL: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/09/30/least-secure-authentication-method/
Protocol
H2
Security
TLS 1.3, , AES_128_GCM
Server
2a00:1450:4001:81d::200a Frankfurt am Main, Germany, ASN15169 (GOOGLE, US),
Reverse DNS
Software
ESF /
Resource Hash
43c1442ae5959bac5957595d96e6503bbce4ba333af532fe4264d283ffe7453f
Security Headers
Name Value
Strict-Transport-Security max-age=31536000
X-Content-Type-Options nosniff
X-Frame-Options SAMEORIGIN
X-Xss-Protection 0

Request headers

User-Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/129.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Referer
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/

Response headers

content-encoding
gzip
x-content-type-options
nosniff
expires
Tue, 01 Oct 2024 02:15:09 GMT
alt-svc
h3=":443"; ma=2592000,h3-29=":443"; ma=2592000
date
Tue, 01 Oct 2024 02:15:09 GMT
content-type
text/css; charset=utf-8
last-modified
Tue, 01 Oct 2024 02:15:09 GMT
x-frame-options
SAMEORIGIN
strict-transport-security
max-age=31536000
link
<https://fonts.gstatic.com>; rel=preconnect; crossorigin
cache-control
private, max-age=86400, stale-while-revalidate=604800
timing-allow-origin
*
cross-origin-opener-policy
same-origin-allow-popups
cross-origin-resource-policy
cross-origin
access-control-allow-origin
*
x-xss-protection
0
server
ESF
style.1725447764.css
www.helpnetsecurity.com/wp-content/themes/hns24/ 		145 KB
17 KB 		Stylesheet
General
Check archive.org
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Full URL
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/wp-content/themes/hns24/style.1725447764.css?ver=6.6.1
Requested by
Host: www.helpnetsecurity.com
URL: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/09/30/least-secure-authentication-method/
Protocol
H2
Security
TLS 1.2, ECDHE_RSA, AES_128_GCM
Server
34.223.135.160 Boardman, United States, ASN16509 (AMAZON-02, US),
Reverse DNS
ec2-34-223-135-160.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com
Software
Apache/2.4.54 (Debian) /
Resource Hash
bd6199333391e5f5fb8626954b05c022471fef96112719e70106b66fc309cc26

Request headers

User-Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/129.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Referer
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/09/30/least-secure-authentication-method/

Response headers

content-encoding
gzip
accept-ranges
bytes
content-length
17681
date
Tue, 01 Oct 2024 02:15:09 GMT
content-type
text/css; charset=utf-8
last-modified
Wed, 04 Sep 2024 11:02:44 GMT
server
Apache/2.4.54 (Debian)
vary
Accept-Encoding
least_secure_authentication_method_yubico-26092024.webp
img2.helpnetsecurity.com/posts2024/ 		12 KB
13 KB 		Image
General
Check archive.org
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Full URL
https://img2.helpnetsecurity.com/posts2024/least_secure_authentication_method_yubico-26092024.webp
Requested by
Host: www.helpnetsecurity.com
URL: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/09/30/least-secure-authentication-method/
Protocol
H2
Security
TLS 1.3, , AES_128_GCM
Server
52.85.65.119 , United States, ASN16509 (AMAZON-02, US),
Reverse DNS
server-52-85-65-119.muc50.r.cloudfront.net
Software
AmazonS3 /
Resource Hash
eb5d5fe1658a0fd81eb11b15cbbd7aab4b76c23782e7318c33a5b57159d0ad9e

Request headers

User-Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/129.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Referer
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/

Response headers

x-amz-version-id
tR_gOlcjEzh4VOHbGqPDiIiGEsDb5qXj
etag
"90a44d7306dc3059d604e8b8c58e08c6"
age
83628
via
1.1 34e040cb5759c15c903209ff7bbe2c2a.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)
accept-ranges
bytes
x-cache
Hit from cloudfront
content-length
12754
x-amz-cf-id
qJJfw3pQEaosMlIVABfScXSLaL2h4VRuRhFbyq53JmYR1iiBPBgVNg==
date
Mon, 30 Sep 2024 03:01:22 GMT
content-type
image/webp
last-modified
Thu, 26 Sep 2024 10:25:51 GMT
server
AmazonS3
x-amz-cf-pop
MUC50-P6
x-amz-server-side-encryption
AES256
ads.dist.js
www.helpnetsecurity.com/wp-content/themes/hns24/assets/js/ 		236 B
387 B 		Script
General
Check archive.org
Download Go to
Full URL
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/wp-content/themes/hns24/assets/js/ads.dist.js?ver=6.6.1
Requested by
Host: www.helpnetsecurity.com
URL: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/09/30/least-secure-authentication-method/
Protocol
H2
Security
TLS 1.2, ECDHE_RSA, AES_128_GCM
Server
34.223.135.160 Boardman, United States, ASN16509 (AMAZON-02, US),
Reverse DNS
ec2-34-223-135-160.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com
Software
Apache/2.4.54 (Debian) /
Resource Hash
166432cf26cb865bf0f1fbf25501d16871d19686bc018d426e59c23ffd8087b6

Request headers

User-Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/129.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Referer
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/09/30/least-secure-authentication-method/

Response headers

content-encoding
gzip
accept-ranges
bytes
content-length
192
date
Tue, 01 Oct 2024 02:15:09 GMT
content-type
application/javascript; charset=utf-8
last-modified
Wed, 04 Sep 2024 11:02:54 GMT
server
Apache/2.4.54 (Debian)
vary
Accept-Encoding
forms.js
www.helpnetsecurity.com/wp-content/plugins/mailchimp-for-wp/assets/js/ 		6 KB
3 KB 		Script
General
Check archive.org
Download Go to
Full URL
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/wp-content/plugins/mailchimp-for-wp/assets/js/forms.js?ver=4.9.15
Requested by
Host: www.helpnetsecurity.com
URL: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/09/30/least-secure-authentication-method/
Protocol
H2
Security
TLS 1.2, ECDHE_RSA, AES_128_GCM
Server
34.223.135.160 Boardman, United States, ASN16509 (AMAZON-02, US),
Reverse DNS
ec2-34-223-135-160.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com
Software
Apache/2.4.54 (Debian) /
Resource Hash
739d93ee10d220cd2d44f5bcb6956c99b3f9ba70647176e5f6bb0186ed0233c2

Request headers

User-Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/129.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Referer
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/09/30/least-secure-authentication-method/

Response headers

content-encoding
gzip
accept-ranges
bytes
content-length
2605
date
Tue, 01 Oct 2024 02:15:09 GMT
content-type
application/javascript; charset=utf-8
last-modified
Wed, 04 Sep 2024 11:02:50 GMT
server
Apache/2.4.54 (Debian)
vary
Accept-Encoding
ajax-forms.js
www.helpnetsecurity.com/wp-content/plugins/mc4wp-premium/ajax-forms/assets/js/ 		3 KB
2 KB 		Script
General
Check archive.org
Download Go to
Full URL
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/wp-content/plugins/mc4wp-premium/ajax-forms/assets/js/ajax-forms.js?ver=4.10.3
Requested by
Host: www.helpnetsecurity.com
URL: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/09/30/least-secure-authentication-method/
Protocol
H2
Security
TLS 1.2, ECDHE_RSA, AES_128_GCM
Server
34.223.135.160 Boardman, United States, ASN16509 (AMAZON-02, US),
Reverse DNS
ec2-34-223-135-160.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com
Software
Apache/2.4.54 (Debian) /
Resource Hash
77e309bea37f3a1b822f94c9b20d5ae0533a24c3446da5686396e4f5518fd700

Request headers

User-Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/129.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Referer
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/09/30/least-secure-authentication-method/

Response headers

content-encoding
gzip
accept-ranges
bytes
content-length
1531
date
Tue, 01 Oct 2024 02:15:09 GMT
content-type
application/javascript; charset=utf-8
last-modified
Wed, 04 Sep 2024 11:02:56 GMT
server
Apache/2.4.54 (Debian)
vary
Accept-Encoding
matomo.js
cdn.matomo.cloud/helpnetsecurity.matomo.cloud/ 		135 KB
40 KB 		Script
General
Check archive.org
Download Go to
Full URL
https://cdn.matomo.cloud/helpnetsecurity.matomo.cloud/matomo.js
Requested by
Host: www.helpnetsecurity.com
URL: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/09/30/least-secure-authentication-method/
Protocol
H2
Security
TLS 1.3, , AES_128_GCM
Server
2600:9000:26db:3e00:c:7d55:b3c0:93a1 , United States, ASN16509 (AMAZON-02, US),
Reverse DNS
Software
CloudFront /
Resource Hash
6c48decefc857d3ce02604d4bb249d5d9ee164dd43fb3c8ef77c569f15ca2e75
Security Headers
Name Value
Strict-Transport-Security max-age=31536000

Request headers

User-Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/129.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Referer
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/

Response headers

content-encoding
gzip
etag
W/"ca010fce9ee54c3ca6ce3af5b2ca378c"
x-amz-version-id
h9cEcEqFMQBR6q9ybByg.3zBU.hPpD2P
age
21
alt-svc
h3=":443"; ma=86400
x-cache
Hit from cloudfront
x-amz-cf-id
2O8zXe2fXU7GHpaaX34airvhPamvFHWsp84-WF8SO6wAxkQL89aJqw==
date
Tue, 01 Oct 2024 02:14:49 GMT
content-type
application/javascript; charset=utf-8
last-modified
Mon, 29 Apr 2024 00:01:49 GMT
vary
Accept-Encoding
strict-transport-security
max-age=31536000
x-amz-replication-status
FAILED
cache-control
max-age=691200
via
1.1 2d22bd8fe92380401bbc1d8cc010e5a0.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)
x-amz-cf-pop
MUC50-P3
server
CloudFront
truncated
/ 		448 B
0 		Image
General
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data:truncated
Protocol
DATA
Server
-, , ASN (),
Reverse DNS
Software
/
Resource Hash
9c34cb6a9452fb85aae9261facc001e5ddabbc244205164b7cb2d02a41ce7e57

Request headers

User-Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/129.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Referer

Response headers

Content-Type
image/svg+xml
truncated
/ 		1 KB
0 		Image
General
Check archive.org
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Full URL
data:truncated
Protocol
DATA
Server
-, , ASN (),
Reverse DNS
Software
/
Resource Hash
b3c2c0e3acf8a32716c89a22025aba9047be34cd2fe7a1316c17c0a2a8753d17

Request headers

User-Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/129.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Referer

Response headers

Content-Type
image/svg+xml
KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxK.woff2
fonts.gstatic.com/s/roboto/v32/ 		18 KB
18 KB 		Font
General
Check archive.org
Download Go to
Full URL
https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/roboto/v32/KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxK.woff2
Requested by
Host: fonts.googleapis.com
URL: https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto%3A300%2C300i%2C400%2C400i%2C500%2C500i%2C700%2C700i&subset=latin%2Clatin-ext&display=swap
Protocol
H3
Security
QUIC, , AES_128_GCM
Server
2a00:1450:4001:82f::2003 Frankfurt am Main, Germany, ASN15169 (GOOGLE, US),
Reverse DNS
Software
sffe /
Resource Hash
89978e658e840b927dddb5cb3a835c7d8526ece79933bd9f3096b301fe1a8571
Security Headers
Name Value
X-Content-Type-Options nosniff
X-Xss-Protection 0

Request headers

User-Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/129.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Origin
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com
Referer
https://fonts.googleapis.com/

Response headers

age
359125
report-to
{"group":"apps-themes","max_age":2592000,"endpoints":[{"url":"https://csp.withgoogle.com/csp/report-to/apps-themes"}]}
x-content-type-options
nosniff
expires
Fri, 26 Sep 2025 22:29:44 GMT
alt-svc
h3=":443"; ma=2592000,h3-29=":443"; ma=2592000
date
Thu, 26 Sep 2024 22:29:44 GMT
last-modified
Thu, 01 Aug 2024 20:41:24 GMT
content-type
font/woff2
cache-control
public, max-age=31536000
timing-allow-origin
*
cross-origin-opener-policy
same-origin; report-to="apps-themes"
cross-origin-resource-policy
cross-origin
content-security-policy-report-only
require-trusted-types-for 'script'; report-uri https://csp.withgoogle.com/csp/apps-themes
accept-ranges
bytes
access-control-allow-origin
*
content-length
18536
x-xss-protection
0
server
sffe
KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmWUlfBBc4.woff2
fonts.gstatic.com/s/roboto/v32/ 		18 KB
18 KB 		Font
General
Check archive.org
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Full URL
https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/roboto/v32/KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmWUlfBBc4.woff2
Requested by
Host: fonts.googleapis.com
URL: https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto%3A300%2C300i%2C400%2C400i%2C500%2C500i%2C700%2C700i&subset=latin%2Clatin-ext&display=swap
Protocol
H3
Security
QUIC, , AES_128_GCM
Server
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Origin
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com
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411174
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server
sffe
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MUC50-P2
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Protocol
H2
Security
TLS 1.3, , AES_128_GCM
Server
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Apache /
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User-Agent
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Content-Type
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strict-transport-security
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server
Apache
access-control-allow-credentials
true
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https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Requested by
Host: www.helpnetsecurity.com
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Protocol
H2
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TLS 1.2, ECDHE_RSA, AES_128_GCM
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no-cache
content-encoding
gzip
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nosniff
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Protocol
H2
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Server
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User-Agent
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Protocol
H2
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TLS 1.3, , AES_128_GCM
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x-amz-server-side-encryption
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10 JavaScript Global Variables

These are the non-standard "global" variables defined on the window object. These can be helpful in identifying possible client-side frameworks and code.

object| _paq object| mc4wp object| hns23Ajax object| hns23Params object| mc4wp_ajax_vars object| Piwik object| Matomo object| matomoAbTestingCampaignUrlParamList object| AnalyticsTracker function| piwik_log

1 Cookies

Domain/Path Name / Value
.helpnetsecurity.com/ Name: SSESS4decf0f010bae5a263354c26060a9ea3
Value: j6de786njvkfts5peftlehjqvc

Indicators

This is a term in the security industry to describe indicators such as IPs, Domains, Hashes, etc. This does not imply that any of these indicate malicious activity.

cdn.matomo.cloud
fonts.googleapis.com
fonts.gstatic.com
helpnetsecurity.matomo.cloud
img.helpnetsecurity.com
img2.helpnetsecurity.com
www.helpnetsecurity.com
108.138.36.113
18.195.235.189
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2a00:1450:4001:81d::200a
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