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 ...

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 ...

If you've already disabled UPnP in your home router and its cousin NAT-PMP, consider yourself ahead of the curve. For the rest of you who are blissfully unaware that UPnP exists and is likely enabled ...

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 ...