humansofnewyork.com security report

Certificate, security headers, email authentication, DNS, registration, and exposed hosts — from public sources.

55risk

Elevated

Several issues worth triaging this week.

0Critical

2High

1Medium

4Low

2Info

Collected 19 hours ago29.7sfrom cache

Certificate Transparency5
DNS resolution8
Network ownership0
CDN / WAF detection0
Exposed ports & CVEs8
Registration
DNS posture8
Email authentication0
Certificate
Security headers3
Archived URLs
Analysis9

noteCertificate inspection is unavailable in this runtime.
noteNetwork ownership lookup is unavailable in this runtime; ASN and org are omitted.
noteCDN/WAF detection is unavailable in this runtime.

Nothing tells receiving mail servers which hosts may send as @humansofnewyork.com, so anyone can. Phishing that impersonates this domain will land in inboxes.
What to do
Publish an SPF TXT record listing your senders and ending in -all.
asset: humansofnewyork.com
SPF and DKIM alone do not protect the From: address a person sees. Without DMARC, a spoofed message can pass SPF for some other domain and still display yours.
What to do
Publish `_dmarc.humansofnewyork.com TXT "v=DMARC1; p=none; rua=mailto:dmarc@humansofnewyork.com"`, review the reports, then move to p=quarantine and p=reject.
asset: humansofnewyork.com
CSP is the main defence that limits what an injected script can do. Without it, any XSS bug is fully exploitable.
What to do
Start with a report-only policy, tighten it against the reports, then enforce.
asset: https://brandonstanton.com/
Browsers and the preload list expect at least six months; shorter values give little protection between visits.
What to do
Raise max-age to 31536000 (one year).
asset: https://brandonstanton.com/
Full URLs — including any tokens or IDs in them — are sent to every third party the page links to.
What to do
Send `Referrer-Policy: strict-origin-when-cross-origin`.
asset: https://brandonstanton.com/
Without HttpOnly, any injected script can read and exfiltrate this cookie.
What to do
Add `HttpOnly` unless client-side code genuinely needs to read it.
asset: https://brandonstanton.com/
Answers for this domain are not signed, so a resolver cannot tell a forged response from a real one.
What to do
Enable DNSSEC at your DNS host and publish the DS record at the registrar.
asset: humansofnewyork.com
Mail to this domain can be downgraded to plaintext by an on-path attacker, because senders have no way to know TLS is required.
What to do
Publish an MTA-STS policy (a TXT record plus a small HTTPS-hosted file).
asset: humansofnewyork.com
Any public certificate authority may issue certificates for this domain. CAA lets you name the ones allowed to.
What to do
Add a CAA record naming your CA, e.g. `0 issue "letsencrypt.org"`.
asset: humansofnewyork.com

final https://brandonstanton.com/status 200time 132msstack cloudflare

✓http:// redirects to https://
!Strict-Transport-Security
max-age=15552000
✗Content-Security-Policy
✓Clickjacking protection
SAMEORIGIN, SAMEORIGIN
✓X-Content-Type-Options
nosniff
✗Referrer-Policy
–Permissions-Policyoptional
–security.txt publishedoptional — tells researchers where to report bugs

!Cookie crumb
Secure · no HttpOnly · no SameSite

✓Receives mail via 2 servers
mailstore1.secureserver.net smtp.secureserver.net
✗SPF
no record
✗DMARC
no record
!MTA-STSinbound mail can be downgraded to plaintext

!DNSSECanswers can be forged
–CAAany CA may issue
–IPv6 (AAAA)IPv4 only
✓8 nameservers
dns1.p09.nsone.net dns2.p09.nsone.net dns3.p09.nsone.net dns4.p09.nsone.net ns01.squarespacedns.com ns02.squarespacedns.com+2

✓Registered with GoDaddy.com, LLC16.0 years old
humansofnewyork.com
✓Registration expiry2924 days
2034-09-09
✓Transfer lock
client delete prohibited, client renew prohibited, client transfer prohibited, client update prohibited
✓2 nameservers at registry
connect1.squarespacedns.com connect2.squarespacedns.com

Address	Ports	Edge	Network
198.185.159.145 humansofnewyork.com +3	80443	direct	—
198.49.23.144 humansofnewyork.com +3	80443	direct	—
198.49.23.145 humansofnewyork.com +3	80443	direct	—
198.185.159.144 humansofnewyork.com +3	80443	direct	—

Archived URLs

Endpoints the Wayback Machine has kept — config files, backups, scripts. Slow to fetch, so it is here on request.

humansofnewyork.com security report

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