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 ...

MANHASSET, N.Y. — Claiming victory in the battle to define a consumer connectivity protocol, Microsoft Corp. said the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) technology it helped define is sweeping away ...

Outdated software on UPnP-enabled devices exposes them to attacks designed to exploit a wide range of vulnerabilities found in UPnP libraries used by various daemons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