Hello all,I have a few questions about my networking setup which I would much appreciate answers for.1. I currently have two routers connected to each other. The first router is connected to the ...

The router is more a “slave” than a “master,” so UPnP doesn’t add much value to a router without applications that know how to use UPnP features. UPnP enabled Internet Gateway Devices or IGD ‘s ...

Networked devices behind a firewall are at risk to attack because of poor authentication in the UPnP protocol in most home routers.

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 ...

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 ...

This is a curious case for me. I was just using my Internet connection at home this afternoon when suddenly everything stopped. Tried all the usual suspects, called Verizon FIOS, had them reset my ...

To turn off UPnP on your router, go into the management console and look for the UPnP setting (on many routers, that's under the administration section).

Outdated software on UPnP-enabled devices exposes them to attacks designed to exploit a wide range of vulnerabilities found in UPnP libraries used by various daemons and servers reachable over the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Funny story really, Swedish video-game vlogger PewDiePie got some unexpected help boosting subscription numbers when hackers took over Chromecast devices to promote his channel.