A couple of weeks ago we discovered that it’s possible for viruses to quickly spread among unsecured or WEP-encrypted Wi-Fi routers in densely populated urban areas. The solution seemed to be simple: ...

A malicious campaign known as 'Eternal Silence' is abusing Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) turns your router into a proxy server used to launch malicious attacks while hiding the location of the threat ...

Forwarding ports on your router so devices can talk to the outside world can be a pain in the butt if you have a lot of gear, so it makes sense why a technology like UPnP sounds so convenient. This ...

Networked devices behind a firewall are at risk to attack because of poor authentication in the UPnP protocol in most home routers. Security vulnerabilities in UPnP continue to crop up and continue to ...

While the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) specifically talks about devices that use versions of libupnp, the open-source portable software development kit (SDK) for UPnP earlier than ...

Taiwanese hardware vendor QNAP urged customers on Monday to disable Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) port forwarding on their routers to prevent exposing their network-attached storage (NAS) devices to ...

I have a UPnP router and wish to get the OS to see it. I'm sure it did once, but no longer.<BR><BR>UPnP is enabled on the router. Both UPnP elements under Network Services are installed. UPnP is ...

The year 2013 is quickly turning into the year of cyberattack awareness, and a commonrouter protocol is one of the latest security holes that urgently demands your attention. The UPnP, or Universal ...

UPnP-enabled network devices (normally home-based firewalls, routers, switches, cable modems, etc.) will automatically open up outbound and/or inbound network ports if requested by an UPnP-enabled ...

You've probably never checked whether your Internet router is set by default to use a harmless-sounding protocol called Universal Plug and Play. If it does, now's a good time to turn it off. The ...