Attackers are experimenting with a new method of avoiding some DDoS mitigation solutions by employing the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol to mask the source port of network packets sent during ...

Universal Plug and Play networking protocols can be exploited to bypass DDoS mitigations. Universal Plug and Play networking protocols have never been a friend of security researchers. On Monday, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

UPnP — in a perfect world it would have been the answer to many connectivity headaches as we add more devices to our home networks. But in practice it the cause of a lot of headaches when it comes to ...

AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS--(Marketwired - July 23, 2014) - Global home networking standards group, UPnP Forum, is driving UPnP+ forward, using the Cloud to connect the Internet of Things (IoT) to the ...

Rapid7 and the Metasploit team have been exceedingly busy and released a whitepaper “Security Flaws in Universal Plug and Play” today that might blow your mind. You know how easy Universal Plug and ...

Zayante, which describes itself as “the industry leader in 1394 silicon and software,” has joined Metro Link, a provider of universal plug-and-play technology, to demonstrate a complete IEEE 1394/UPnP ...