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 ...

Forwarding ports on your router so devices can talk to the outside world can be a pain in the butt if you have a lot of gear, so it makes sense why a technology like UPnP sounds so convenient. This ...

While the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) specifically talks about devices that use versions of libupnp, the open-source portable software development kit (SDK) for UPnP earlier than ...

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 ...

Networked devices behind a firewall are at risk to attack because of poor authentication in the UPnP protocol in most home routers. Security vulnerabilities in UPnP continue to crop up and continue to ...

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 ...

upnp makes my airport extreme crash with an obscene frequency.<BR><BR>As does 5GHz.<BR><BR>As does IPV6 tunneling.<BR><BR>This thing is mostly a piece of junk, but at least it gets N speeds at 2.4GHz, ...

UPnP can be a hassle, but it's not hard to fix. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. While an internet connection unlocks the best of ...