Forwarding ports on your router so devices can talk to the outside world can be a pain in the butt if you have a lot of gear, so it makes sense why a technology like UPnP sounds so convenient. This ...

Taiwanese hardware vendor QNAP urged customers on Monday to disable Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) port forwarding on their routers to prevent exposing their network-attached storage (NAS) devices to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: ...

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 ...

Your router is perhaps the most important gadget in your home. It checks all incoming and outgoing traffic, acting as a sentry to make sure that nothing dangerous comes in and nothing sensitive goes ...

If you want to enable UPnP on your router on NETGEAR, D-Link, ASUS, TP-Link, Linksys, etc., you can do it by following the below steps based on your router manufacturer. Let’s get into the process of ...