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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.
20 of the 60 sites closest to Threatpost match.
- 01
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 - 02
Krebs on Security – In-depth security news and investigation
American journalist specializing in cybersecurity
Very close - 03
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 - 04
Schneier on Security -
Very close - 05
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 - 06
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 - 07
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 - 08
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 - 09
Welcome to LWN.net [LWN.net]
computing webzine with an emphasis on Unix-like operating systems
Very close - 10
Techmeme
Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web.
Very close - 11
Интернет-издание о высоких технологиях - CNews
CNews – крупнейшее издание в сфере корпоративных информационных технологий в России и странах СНГ. Оперативные новости и аналитические материалы мира высоких технологий: технологические инновации, проекты внедрений, финансовая сторона бизнеса ИКТ-компаний, тенденции развития отрасли, последние научные разработки.
Very close - 12
TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates
Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news.
Very close - 13
Cointelegraph Bitcoin & Ethereum Blockchain News
The most recent news about crypto industry at Cointelegraph. Latest news about bitcoin, ethereum, blockchain, mining, cryptocurrency prices and more
Very close - 14
Comparitech - Tech researched, compared and rated
Tech researched, compared and rated
Very close - 15
TechCrunch | Startup and Technology News
TechCrunch | Reporting on the business of technology, startups, venture capital funding, and Silicon Valley
Very close - 16
MacRumors: Apple News and Rumors
Apple News and Rumors
Very close - 17
Fortune - Fortune 500 Daily & Breaking Business News
Unrivaled access, premier storytelling, and the best of business since 1930.
Very close - 18
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Very close - 19
Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News - Domain Name Industry News
Domain Name News and analysis including domain sales, UDRP, domain registrars, domain registries.
Very close - 20
International Business, World News & Global Stock Market Analysis
CNBC International is the world leader for news on business, technology, China, trade, oil prices, the Middle East and markets.
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 = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,199
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 38 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