{"id":15236,"date":"2021-12-18T22:36:48","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T22:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&#038;p=15236"},"modified":"2021-12-18T22:37:08","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T22:37:08","slug":"solved-is-closing-port-80-for-the-sake-of-increased-security-good","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/networking\/is-closing-port-80-for-the-sake-of-increased-security-good\/51150.html","title":{"rendered":"Solved Is Closing Port 80 For The Sake Of Increased Security Good?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve read all over the place that the most vulnerable port on one&#8217;s PC is Port 80 &#8212; and that this is the first port potential hackers scan for to see if it&#8217;s open before they launch their attack. So . . . so I close this port just for the sake of increased security and, if so, how is the best way to go about this?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks in advance!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":475},"question-category":[49],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-15236","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-networking"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/15236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=15236"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=15236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}