The US Department of Homeland Security is next in line to warn of a serious threat to networking devices, such as scanners, printers, computers, and routers. It comes only a few hours after a white ...

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 ...

According to the security team at Rapid7, technology used worldwide in both routers and standard networking equipment is making it possible for hackers to potentially infiltrate approximately 40 ...

BEAVERTON, OR--(Marketwire - Feb 8, 2013) - UPnP Forum -- the global standards body that has paved the way for seamless connectivity between more than a billion devices -- today responds to concerns ...

"The number of UPnP devices that will behave as open reflectors is vast, and many of them are home-based Internet-enabled devices that are difficult to patch," said Akamai security business unit ...

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 ...

Outdated software on UPnP-enabled devices exposes them to attacks designed to exploit a wide range of vulnerabilities found in UPnP libraries used by various daemons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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...