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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When you use UPnP on the Linksys router with XP, you get this Internet Connection device in your Network Connections, where you can enable/disable services. So does this actually tell the Linksys to ...