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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Back in 2018, a team of security researchers from Akamai released a white paper detailing a malicious proxy system they dubbed UPnProxy that is now being leveraged in a new attack. The malicious proxy ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tens of millions of network-enabled devices including routers, printers, media servers, IP cameras, smart TVs and more can be attacked over the Internet because of dangerous flaws in their ...

I wrote a story today about how attackers could take advantage of the way flash and Universal Plug and Play work to launch a man-in-the-middle attack against the majority of home routers, which are ...

UPnP — in a perfect world it would have been the answer to many connectivity headaches as we add more devices to our home networks. But in practice it the cause of a lot of headaches when it comes to ...