I f you've already disabled UPnP in your home router and its cousin NAT-PMP, consider yourself ahead of the curve. For the ...

The wrong NAT type can ruin your planned night of gaming on an Xbox Series X or S, but it's an easy enough fix if you're ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Botnet operators and cyber-espionage groups (APTs) are abusing the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol that comes with all modern routers to proxy bad traffic and hide their real location from ...

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

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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 ...

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 ...