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 ...

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: ...

Is this worth doing? I gather post doing it, you would need to go to that new number to manage your router. What really would this achieve for the security of a typical home computer accessing the net ...

I've used a lot of routers throughout my time on the internet, from ISP routers that have locked-down services to routers I kept way longer than I should have. Still, on every one that I could change ...

Last week we reported that specific settings on routers and other networking hardware can cause problems in Apple's iChat. In particular, we noted that the uPnP (Universal Plug and Play) option on ...

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 ...

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In some cases, specific settings on routers and other networking hardware can cause problems in Apple's iChat. MacFixIt reader Craig Sayer reports that his router's uPnP (Universal Plug and Play) ...

I wrote a story today about how attackers could take advantage of the way flash and Universal Plug and Play work to launch a man-in-the-middle attack against the majority of home routers, which are ...