Block specific apps’ network access with Windows Defender Firewall (Advanced Security) on Windows 10/11
Difficulty: Intermediate | Time Required: 20 minutes
Introduction
Blocking an app’s internet access can help protect your privacy, conserve bandwidth, or prevent a troublesome program from...
CVE-2025-54109 Windows Defender Firewall Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Summary
What it is: CVE-2025-54109 is an elevation-of-privilege (EoP) vulnerability described by Microsoft as "Access of resource using incompatible type ('type confusion')" in the Windows Defender Firewall...
If you manage servers, opening a port in the Windows Server firewall is one of those routine tasks that’s trivial to execute but easy to get wrong — and a single misconfiguration can expose services to the public internet. This feature explains the exact, supported ways to open ports in Windows...