In a project that found more than 80 million unique IP addresses responding to Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) discovery requests, researchers at Rapid7 were shocked to find that somewhere between 40 ...

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Outdated software on UPnP-enabled devices exposes them to attacks designed to exploit a wide range of vulnerabilities found in UPnP libraries used by various daemons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

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: ...

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 ...

If you’ve ever run a game server or used BitTorrent, you probably know that life is easier if your router supports UPnP (Universal Plug and Play). This is a fairly old tech — created by a standards ...

Tens of millions of network-enabled devices including routers, printers, media servers, IP cameras, smart TVs and more can be attacked over the Internet because of dangerous flaws in their ...

If you play many online multiplayer games on PS4, you may have been running into connectivity problems. For example, in Call of Duty Ghosts your NAT Type might often times be “Moderate” instead of ...

REDMOND, Wash., July 17, 2001 — Microsoft Corp. today announced that its Windows® XP operating system will include native support for Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) Internet gateways, providing ...

Security researchers from Croatia-based security firm DefenseCode claim to have found a critical remote code execution vulnerability in the UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) implementation developed by ...

The networked digital home of the not-too-distant future will contain a wide variety of consumer electronics equipment, PCs, and mobile handheld devices. These devices will have to learn how 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 ...