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 ...

If you’ve ever run a game server or used BitTorrent, you probably know that life is easier if your router supports UPnP ...

These features aren't worth the tradeoff.

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 ...

OK, so I am planning my new home network and I am looking for the magical device that does everything mentioned above. I already looked for my Holy Grail with (very) limited success, so I turn to the ...

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 ...

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 ...