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 ...

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 ...

Q: Recently the Denver Post had articles telling computer users to disable UPnP and Java because of hackers using them to gain control of a person’s computer, but didn’t tell us how to do it. Can you ...

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: ...

Is this worth doing? I gather post doing it, you would need to go to that new number to manage your router. What really would this achieve for the security of a typical home computer accessing the net ...

Note that when people are talking about disabling UPnP they are talking about disabling automatic UPnP configuration of the firewall, it is kinda hard to completely disable UPnP on the local link ...

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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 ...

Outdated software on UPnP-enabled devices exposes them to attacks designed to exploit a wide range of vulnerabilities found in UPnP libraries used by various daemons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

Despite the issuance of the patch, Microsoft was criticized for taking two months to solve the problem after being informed of it in October by eEye Digital Security ...

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 ...