Fred Stluka from Bristle.com just introduced me to port knocking — a method of opening ports on a firewall by trying to connect with a series of ports in a pre-determined order. The sequence of ...

The Windows Defender Firewall can be configured to allow or block programs on a computer from accessing network or Internet resources. It also allows or blocks connections to and from other computers ...

I'm trying to get the windows firewall turned on internally at work here since it's been explicitly disabled for who knows how long. The officescan part continues to report offline any time I enable ...