Is technoscience.ba legit or a scam?
Techno Science is a legitimate academic journal from the University of Travnik with verified ISSN registrations and no history of malicious activity.
Analysis Summary
No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
MT Intelligence
Our analysis confirms this site belongs to an accredited higher education institution in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The journal is officially registered with international ISSN identifiers for both print and digital formats. Our antivirus network shows no detections across 92 different security engines. While the site has some technical glitches like incorrect dates and broken links, these appear to be maintenance issues rather than signs of fraud. The hosting IP has a clean reputation with no history of abuse reports.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for technoscience.ba, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- technoscience.ba is the website for "Techno Science", an international open-access scientific journal in technical sciences, published by Fakultet za tehničke studije, Univerzitet u Travnik, Bosnia and Herzegovina (Aleja konzula 5, Travnik)
- The journal has official ISSNs: print 2490-2330, online 2490-2438 (registered 2016 via ISSN portal). Faculty site fts.edu.ba confirms publication, lists full editorial board (Editor-in-Chief Elvedin Bečić and international members), ethics
- Faculty (fts.edu.ba) is accredited, offers multiple engineering/architecture programs (I-III cycle), is a Google for Education partner, organizes conferences (e.g., SiZco), and actively promotes the journal with calls for papers.
- University of Travnik is a recognized private institution (est. 2007, ministry-registered). No mentions of predatory practices, article processing charges (APC), or fees found in searches.
- Site shows some technical issues: multiple 404 pages (e.g., /about.html, instructions-for-authors), inconsistent dates (many issues dated "17. Juna 2026"), and limited recent independent indexing or citations visible.
- No scam reports, complaints, negative reviews, or positive third-party reviews found on Reddit, Trustpilot, ScamAdviser, or general web searches. Searches for "scam", "fraud", "predatory" returned zero relevant hits.
- Journal email: technoscience@eftfts.edu.ba; faculty contact available on fts.edu.ba.
Fakultet za tehničke studije (Faculty of Technical Studies) is an accredited higher education institution at Univerzitet u Travnik (first private university in BiH, established 2007, registered with relevant ministry). Journal published by this faculty with official ISSN 2490-2438 (online) / 2490-23
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://technoscience.ba/
- 2200https://technoscience.ba/
Server Reputation
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on technoscience.ba and not a lookalike like t-echnoscience.ba.com or an IDN homoglyph.
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Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on technoscience.ba. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- technoscience.ba passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 84/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. technoscience.ba presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R13, expiring in 47 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report technoscience.ba as clean.
- No. technoscience.ba is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- technoscience.ba resolves to an IP operated by TOTOHOST d.o.o. in DE (usage type: Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 24, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around technoscience.ba have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.
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