Your router comes with these two features that can put your network at risk, enabled by default.

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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I scanned my router and didn’t like what I saw.