defender firewall

Microsoft published CVE-2026-61936 on Tuesday, August 11, identifying a Windows Defender Firewall Service Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability in the Windows component exposed to administrators as the MpsSvc service. The advisory arrived at 7:00 a.m. Pacific time, three hours before Microsoft’s...

Microsoft Edge usually should not be given a broad inbound Windows firewall exception for normal browsing. The safe fix is to keep Microsoft Defender Firewall on, then allow msedge.exe through Microsoft Defender Firewall only where a local rule, security app, or managed policy has actually...