Dark Reading

01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Dark Reading

Dark Reading darkreading.com

Wikidata: cyber security news site

Company

No imprint we could read

Online since

Not in the Internet Archive

02 · Privacy

What Dark Reading tracks

We can’t read darkreading.com’s homepage (bot protection page), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.

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   Threatpost threatpost.com English 1 tracker

   Threatpost | The first stop for security news

   Threatpost, is an independent news site which is a leading source of information about IT and business security for hundreds of thousands of professionals worldwide.

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   The Hacker News thehackernews.com English 2 trackers

   The Hacker News | #1 Trusted Source for Cybersecurity News

   The Hacker News is the top cybersecurity news platform, delivering real-time updates, threat intelligence, data breach reports, expert analysis, and actionable insights for infosec professionals and decision-makers.

   • Cloudflare
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   BleepingComputer bleepingcomputer.com Top 10K English 2 trackers

   BleepingComputer | Cybersecurity, Technology News and Support

   BleepingComputer is a premier destination for cybersecurity news for over 20 years, delivering breaking stories on the latest hacks, malware threats, and how to protect your devices.

   • Cloudflare
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   The Record therecord.media English 2 trackers

   Cyber Security News | The Record from Recorded Future News

   Stay updated on the latest cyber security news. The Record from Recorded Future News gives exclusive access to leaders, policymakers, and the cyber underground.

   • Cloudflare
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   Krebs on Security krebsonsecurity.com English No trackers

   Krebs on Security – In-depth security news and investigation

   American journalist specializing in cybersecurity

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   Schneier counterpane.com Top 10K English No trackers

   Schneier on Security -

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   InformationWeek informationweek.com English 3 trackers

   InformationWeek, News & Analysis Tech Leaders Trust

   News analysis and commentary on information technology strategy.

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   The Register theregister.com Top 10K English 2 trackers

   Technology news and analysis | The Register

   All the latest news for enterprise technology decision-makers and IT pros | The Register

   • Google Search Console
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   • Brevo
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   • Amazon CloudFront
   • Google Ad Manager

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   Defense One defenseone.com English 8 trackers

   Defense One

   Defense One provides news, analysis, and ideas about the future of national security to defense and industry leaders, innovative decision-makers, and in...

   • Google Search Console
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   • Azure Front Door
   • Bootstrap

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    Ars Technica arstechnica.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Ars Technica - Serving the Technologist since 1998. News, reviews, and analysis.

    News and reviews, covering IT, AI, science, space, health, gaming, cybersecurity, tech policy, computers, mobile devices, and operating systems.

    • Google Search Console
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    venturebeat.com Top 10K

    American technology news and analysis website

    • Google Search Console
    • Amazon SES
    • Astro
    • Google Workspace
    • Mailchimp
    • Marketo

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    Semafor semafor.com English 1 tracker

    Semafor - An intelligent, transparent global news platform for breaking stories, analysis and video

    Transparent, global reporting by Semafor journalists on politics, policy, business, finance, technology, climate, energy, media, entertainment, world affairs, China, Asia, Europe, Africa for US and international readers.

    • Google Search Console
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    • Apple Business
    • Astro
    • Atlassian
    • Fastly

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    Slashdot slashdot.org Top 10K English 4 trackers

    Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters, & software

    Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters. Timely news source for technology related news and B2B software reviews & comparisons.

    • Cloudflare
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    • Matomo

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    ZDNET zdnet.com Top 10K English 4 trackers

    News and Advice on the World's Latest Innovations | ZDNET - ZDNET

    see all latest

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    HuffPost huffpost.com Top 1K English 3 trackers

    HuffPost - Breaking News, Politics, Entertainment & Opinion

    Read the latest U.S. and world news, politics, entertainment, lifestyle and opinion pieces from HuffPost’s trusted team of journalists.

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    heise online heise.de Top 10K English 1 tracker

    heise online – IT news, guides and background information | heise online

    News and forums on computers, IT, science, media and politics. Price comparison of hardware and software as well as downloads at Heise Medien.

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    LWN.net lwn.net English No trackers

    Welcome to LWN.net [LWN.net]

    computing webzine with an emphasis on Unix-like operating systems

    • Google Search Console
    • Apache HTTP Server

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    The Block theblock.co

    Digital currency data and news company

    • Cloudflare
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    CoinDesk coindesk.com Top 10K

    news site about bitcoin and digital currencies, owned by Digital Currency Group

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    TechRepublic techrepublic.com Top 10K English

    online trade publication and social community

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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Dark Reading’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Dark Reading uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.

04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Dark Reading adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.