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Threatpost
Who runs Threatpost, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest cybersecurity news alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- BleepingComputer
Measured from Threatpost’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Threatpost01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Threatpost
Threatpost threatpost.com
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.
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Threatpost tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
tracker that follows visitors
3 of the 18 alternatives below have fewer, 11 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 1 tool
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Threatpost
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Threatpost, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
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.
Very close - 02
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.
Very close - 03 Dark Reading darkreading.com
cyber security news site
Very close - 04
Krebs on Security – In-depth security news and investigation
American journalist specializing in cybersecurity
Very close - 05
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.
Very close - 06
Schneier on Security -
Very close - 07
Technology news and analysis | The Register
All the latest news for enterprise technology decision-makers and IT pros | The Register
Very close - 08
InformationWeek, News & Analysis Tech Leaders Trust
News analysis and commentary on information technology strategy.
Very close - 09
News and Advice on the World's Latest Innovations | ZDNET - ZDNET
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Very close - 10
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.
Very close - 11
TechTarget: Enterprise IT News, Expert Advice & Research
TechTarget delivers enterprise IT news, expert advice and research on AI, cybersecurity, infrastructure and IT strategy to help you make smarter tech decisions.
Very close - 12
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.
Very close - 13
Computerworld
Computerworld covers a range of technology topics, with a focus on these core areas of IT: generative AI, Windows, mobile, Apple/enterprise, office suites, productivity software, and collaboration software, as well as relevant information about companies such as Microsoft, Apple, OpenAI and Google.
Very close - 14
InfoWorld
Business technology, IT news, product reviews and enterprise IT strategies.
Very close - 15
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.
Very close - 16
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.
Very close - 17 venturebeat.com Top 10K
American technology news and analysis website
Very close - 18
Breaking News, Latest News and Videos | CNN
View the latest news and breaking news today for U.S., world, weather, entertainment, politics and health at CNN.com.
Very close - 19
Engadget | Technology News & Expert Reviews
Breaking news from the worlds of technology and entertainment, and expert reviews of the latest consumer tech products.
Very close - 20
Welcome to LWN.net [LWN.net]
computing webzine with an emphasis on Unix-like operating systems
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Threatpost’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Threatpost uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Threatpost 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.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 8 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 28 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Threatpost’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- CMS
- WordPress page source: /wp-content/
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://threatpost.com/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.min.js?ver=3.7.1
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-content/)
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 MX threatpost-com.mail.protection.outlook.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=IAC53QOVd-CRvhQSmvtMwg2rfhe3Ku8AcQW-_TUue5U
- Yandex Webmaster TXT yandex-verification: d2cfa297d6302d69
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on threatpost.com 9/20
- Google Workspace · not on threatpost.com 9/20
- Microsoft 365 9/20
- Google Tag Manager 9/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on threatpost.com 8/20
- PHP 8/20
- Cloudflare · not on threatpost.com 7/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on threatpost.com 7/20
- nginx 7/20
- WordPress 7/20
- Atlassian · not on threatpost.com 5/20
- Google Fonts · not on threatpost.com 4/20
- jQuery 4/20
- Mimecast · not on threatpost.com 4/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on threatpost.com 4/20