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 ...

Outdated software on UPnP-enabled devices exposes them to attacks designed to exploit a wide range of vulnerabilities found in UPnP libraries used by various daemons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

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 ...

Security experts are advising that a networking feature known as Universal Plug and Play be disabled on routers, printers, and cameras, after finding it makes tens of millions of Internet-connected ...

You may have heard the term Universal Plug and Play, or UPnP, thrown around in Xbox forums or network settings and wondered what it is. It's actually a networking protocol that lets devices on your ...