Our mesh router system comparison series continues. Our first review is Plume router. Check out how they security and content filtering stacks up against Webshrinker.
This new fake Lloyds Banking domain has just been caught for today's #PhishingFriday. Read on to take a closer look.
Would you be able to tell that these major company websites are fake? Read on to take a closer look on how to identify if these are real or fake domains.
How sweet! They're giving out free gift cards for the holidays! Wait, let me get a second look...
How can our AI Webshrinker tool, be involved in the DecSecOps process? Our technical writer, Fikayo Adepoju explores this topic and gives us insight on his experiment.
Which Netflix login would you choose? Check out this blog to get a closer look!
Today's #PhishingFriday is a scary one... Find out how your credit card could be sold online!
You get a fake pop alert onto your computer that tells you to call a number. Find out what these are and why you should never call!
For today's #PhishingFriday, we are highlighting these medical scams that have became popular due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Every friday is #PhishingFriday and today we are featuring phishing scams with fake Paypal domain and emails!
Today's #PhishingFriday features these fake Windows and Microsoft websites, take a look.
We're still testing mesh WiFi routers. In this article, we breakdown our analysis of NETGEAR Orbi's security categories and parental controls. Here's what we discovered about NETGEAR Orbi security.
Who doesn't love a free gift? Falling for these "free gift card" scams could do more damage than you think.
Is your money online? For today's #PhishingFriday, our AI caught these fake banking and money websites that could do some serious damage.
Our mesh router system comparison series continues. Our first review is Plume router. Check out how they security and content filtering stacks up against Webshrinker.
Every Friday is #PhishingFriday! This is where we share unique malicious sites that the Webshrinker's AI has caught in the last week.
Every Friday is #PhishingFriday! This is where we share unique malicious sites that the Webshrinker's AI has caught in the last week.
When it comes to mesh router systems, domain classification and parental controls are something only some of these providers keep in mind. As we kickoff our series, we’ll compare each of these services head-to-head before looking at them individually.
Every Friday is #PhishingFriday! This is where we share unique malicious sites that the Webshrinker's AI has caught in the last week.
Every Friday is #PhishingFriday! This is where we share unique malicious sites that the Webshrinker's AI has caught in the last week.
We curate our sets of categories very carefully, and only update them after thorough consideration. Here are the newest Webshrinker categories.
Malicious websites are everywhere. Find out how to identify fake websites so you can avoid scams and malicious downloads in your day-to-day.
Scam websites are everywhere, unfortunately for all of us. But finding just one bad site can help uncover hundreds. Here’s one case where that happened.
How does Webshrinker’s domain categorization work? We break it down for you here so you understand the ins and outs.
Webshrinker does domain classification, but what is that really? We go over all of the details on the blog to give you a full understanding.
Malicious URLs are everywhere, unfortunately. But how do you spot them? Here are a few malicious URL examples from Webshrinker.
You can’t understand AI without knowing the artificial intelligence basics. Here, we give a walkthrough of artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Today we are pleased to announce a welcome enhancement to the Website Category API which boosts our deceptive and phishing site detection! The initial “deceptive” category was released back in March of 2018 and is actively being used to protect users from zero-day phishing attacks. This latest update adds a new layer of protection against…
The latest domain name and IP address data for July and August 2018 is now live. If you are already using the Hosts API, no additional changes are needed to start using the latest data. New queries will use this data automatically. While some of the Web Shrinker APIs have data that is updated in...
When we first started crawling and analyzing sites, right away users were asking about the different types of APIs we could offer based on the data we collect. One of the most frequently requested services was for accessing the backlinks for websites. Today I’m happy to announce that’s exactly what we’re releasing: an easy to…
Recently we launched a new offering called the Domain API which allows you to easily get data about websites and their subdomains. With one simple query you can get information about the requested domain, including: Primary Categories Primary language used on that domain IP addresses of the hosting servers Known subdomains Today, we are bringing…
DNSFilter, a leader in DNS-based web content filtering, today announced it acquired Web Shrinker. Web Shrinker is the domain intelligence service by Web Shrinker, LLC, and provides web site screenshot and domain intelligence API services. Web Shrinker uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to analyze and identify threats and domains in real…
The latest addition to our APIs is the Domain API which provides you with detailed information about the requested domain name, IP address or hostname. If you want to discover websites on a shared hosting server or get a list of known subdomains, now you can do it with a simple query to our API….
Tricking web site visitors into revealing sensitive account credentials or installing a malicious piece of software is nothing new. I remember a time when custom Internet Explorer toolbars were commonplace along with the many problems they brought. Remember the never ending random popup windows or the browser windows that were nearly impossible to close?
Today we are releasing a new feature for our website screenshots service – the ability to pixelate images captured from sites categorized as “adult.” To use this feature, simply pass the option “hideadult=1” with your screenshot API calls. This will automatically mask images for any URL or domain name if it’s categorized as having “adult”…
While we constantly crawl and check websites for new content and evaluate them for categories, there are some updates which we hold back and batch together for release at the same time. Now is one of those times! We have database updates that will be made available via the web site URL category API and…
A step by step guide on how to create screenshots of the websites by using Website screenshots API.
Website categorization can be used in many ways. Maybe you are building an online directory, analyzing a large list of websites for behavior analysis, looking to filter your network traffic or categorizing ads on your platform. In each of these scenarios, you need a reliable URL categorization partner.
The Internet has quickly become one the most important parts of our lives. It’s also constantly growing with more devices and websites being added each day (not even counting IoT devices.) Along with this exponential growth, the potential online threats are also increasing.
When you hear about web filtering, some of the first thoughts that come to mind may be “The website you are visiting has been blocked due to company policy” or “The category for that site has been blocked by the school administrator.” While many businesses and schools use URL web filtering solutions to increase employee…