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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Is this worth doing? I gather post doing it, you would need to go to that new number to manage your router. What really would this achieve for the security of a typical home computer accessing the net ...

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 ...

If you want to enable UPnP on your router on NETGEAR, D-Link, ASUS, TP-Link, Linksys, etc., you can do it by following the below steps based on your router manufacturer. Let’s get into the process of ...

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 ...