Your router comes with these two features that can put your network at risk, enabled by default.
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 ...
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: ...
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 ...
Zyxel has patched a critical-severity OS command execution vulnerability that is remotely exploitable via crafted UPnP requests.
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 ...
Zyxel fixes a handful of worrying router flaws ...
The Department of Homeland security, in conjunction with Rapid7, has issued another warning (Vulnerability Note VU#922681) that everyone using the Internet needs to be aware of. The last warning that ...
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 ...
A couple weeks ago we talked about in-app browsers, and the potential privacy issues when opening content in them. This week Microsoft reveals the other side of that security coin — JavaScript on a ...
I'm toying around with EyeconTroller (android or iphone app) that streams video to any UPnP source it finds on the network that accepts streams. I have a popcorn hour C200 that shows up so I can play ...