: Open ports on a website Alright. I risk sounding like an absolute newbie but I've got to know this. A friend and I paid a developer to develop a website for a start-up we had come up with.

@Mendez628

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Alright. I risk sounding like an absolute newbie but I've got to know this.

A friend and I paid a developer to develop a website for a start-up we had come up with. The idea fell through and the start up never really took off. We've still been paying the developer a small yearly domain renewal fee.

Now recently, I did an nmap intense TCP scan on my domain. I found out that there were 11 ports open. Initially I was a little worried for the security but I then did the same test on 'google.com' and I found 2 open ports - 80 and 443 which made me think that open ports were probably not that big an issue.

But then I cross-referenced the purpose of each open port on my domain. IMAP, POP3, FTP to name a few.

A UDP scan revealed 13 open ports.

I tried to gain access to these ports via telnet and I got in as far as the login page or the opening Dovecot page on cmd but could not progress any further - but I was convinced that a reasonably skilled hacker could easily break in.

Are my worries unfounded?

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