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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I have a UPnP router and wish to get the OS to see it. I'm sure it did once, but no longer.<BR><BR>UPnP is enabled on the router. Both UPnP elements under Network Services are installed. UPnP is ...

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 ...

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 ...