If you've already disabled UPnP in your home router and its cousin NAT-PMP, consider yourself ahead of the curve. For the rest of you who are blissfully unaware that UPnP exists and is likely enabled ...

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 ...

Level 3 Communications has discovered a new type of reflection DDoS attack that takes advantage of RPC Portmapper to overwhelm networking services. A number web hosting providers and businesses in the ...

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 ...