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 ...

A week or so ago, I got a great deal on a game I'd been curious about, Dawn of War 2. DoW2 has "Games for Windows Live integration" - it wants me to sign into the GfWL platform in order to use many of ...

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 ...

Tonight I'm going to reserve a manual ip and assign it to the XBox. I'm also going to assign DNS servers through OpenDNS. My question is should I utilize both port forwarding AND Quality Of Service ...

If the power line to your Xbox One is suddenly disrupted, you may find it difficult to get back to gaming. Also, you may see an error, bearing the following message – UPnP not successful. While simply ...

17+ years ago, EDN published my account of a successful FTP hack (and hacker intrusion) of my Toshiba Magnia SG10 network appliance, a “headless” PC running RedHat Linux and acting as a ...

Hackers who reportedly commandeered thousands of Chromecast streaming devices on Monday used them to alert owners to a hole in their security, while also plugging their favorite YouTube star—perennial ...

A leading maker of network-attached storage (NAS) devices is urging customers to upgrade to the latest software version and reconfigure their systems in order to thwart a new ransomware campaign.