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Security Scan Report: news.vt.edu

Redirected to: https://www.vt.edu/acceptable-use.html

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Submitted: Feb 24, 2026, 2:49:21 PMCompleted: Feb 24, 2026, 2:50:30 PMpubliccompleted
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Summary

This website contacted 1 IP in 1 country across 1 domain to perform 2 HTTP transactions. The main domain is vt.edu and was registered NaN years ago.

Submitted URL: https://news.vt.edu/articles/2026/02/rick-devens-survivor50.html

Effective URL: https://www.vt.edu/acceptable-use.htmlRedirected

The Cisco Umbrella rank of the primary domain is #56,505 of the top 1 million websites

AI Security Verdict

Safe Website

Confidence: 98%

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Risk Score

The page is a legitimate Virginia Tech Acceptable Use statement with no security concerns.

Safety Factors
Well‑established domain with long registration history
Brand and domain alignment (Virginia Tech)
No suspicious forms or data collection
No YARA malware or IDS alerts detected
Only a single legitimate redirect to the official site
Domain age information unavailable

Details

Website Access Blocked

This website blocked our scanner, likely using AWS WAF, Cloudflare, or similar bot protection. The page may show differently for regular users.

Page Title

ERROR: The request could not be satisfied

Scan Type

public

Language

🇺🇸

English

(80% confidence)

Category

education learning

(66%)

Domain Information

You're looking at domain 'news.vt.edu' on the sponsored educational top-level domain (.edu) and includes subdomain 'news'. Its registrable label 'vt' stretches across 2 characters split between zero vowels and two consonants. Splitting it apart reveals one word: vt. Median word length comes out to two characters. No strong language cues emerged from the frequency lists.

Screenshot

Security scan screenshot of https://news.vt.edu/articles/2026/02/rick-devens-survivor50.html

Page Load Overview

6.08s
Total Load Time
165
HTTP Requests
32
Domains
7.7 MB
Total Size

Language Analysis

Primary Language

🇺🇸English
Code: en
Confidence:80%
Script:Latin
Direction:ltr

Detection Details

Language Code:en
Detection Confidence:80%
Script Type:Latin
HTML Lang Attribute:en
Text Length:13,174 chars
Detector Agreement:100%

Website Classification

Primary Category

education learning66% confidence
Type: spa
Method: ml+structural

All Detected Categories

education learning
66%
education
45%
news/blog
20%

Detected Features

Search
OG: article

Domain & IP Information

RequestsIP AddressLocationAS Autonomous System
16552.222.236.60United States
AS16509Amazon.com, Inc.
1651--

Content Similarity HashesFor malware variant detection

TLSH (Trend Micro Locality Sensitive Hash)

Security-focused

Specialized for malware detection and similarity analysis

T19211B73F549C241712133210AFC9BB28A316A2FEA1314168B09580DF31DF3B8CBE25C0

ssdeep (Context Triggered Piecewise Hashing)

Context-aware

Detects similar content even with modifications

24:hMiHksq+Me57SaQSorcUezjIykgxQ4rlOfCM88:Dq+t5qI7xQ4MR88

sdhash (Similarity Digest Hashing)

High-precision

High-precision similarity detection for forensic analysis

sdhash:3:923:AAkAAAAABAAAAAAAAAAIAAAAAAAIAAAAAAAAAABEAAAIAACAAAgBAAAAAAAQAAABAAgAAACAAAACAAAAAAAAABAAAEAAEAAA

These hashes enable detection of similar websites and malware variants by comparing content similarity even when exact matches aren't found.

Image Hashes

Perceptual Hashes

Average Hash:0703ffffffffffff
Perceptual Hash:87070303c1edcddf
Difference Hash:ccec000000000000
Wavelet Hash:0000ffff0f0f0f0f
Color Hash:#b7c587

Other Hashes

Crop Resistant:ccec000000000000

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