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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a project that found more than 80 million unique IP addresses responding to Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) discovery requests, researchers at Rapid7 were shocked to find that somewhere between 40 ...

BEAVERTON, OR--(Marketwired - Nov 18, 2014) - UPnP Forum, the global standards group responsible for the seamless connectivity of billions of home devices today launches its UPnP+ Certification level ...

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 ...

Although its been a widely-available (and widely-used) standard for years, the UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) standard and 76 specific UPnP fixes received official international standard status late ...