I f you've already disabled UPnP in your home router and its cousin NAT-PMP, consider yourself ahead of the curve. For the ...

The wrong NAT type can ruin your planned night of gaming on an Xbox Series X or S, but it's an easy enough fix if you're getting a UPnP error.

This is a curious case for me. I was just using my Internet connection at home this afternoon when suddenly everything stopped. Tried all the usual suspects, called Verizon FIOS, had them reset my ...

I have a UPnP router and wish to get the OS to see it. I'm sure it did once, but no longer.<BR><BR>UPnP is enabled on the router. Both UPnP elements under Network Services are installed. UPnP is ...

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 ...

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: ...

UPnP — in a perfect world it would have been the answer to many connectivity headaches as we add more devices to our home networks. But in practice it the cause of a lot of headaches when it comes to ...

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 ...

Outdated software on UPnP-enabled devices exposes them to attacks designed to exploit a wide range of vulnerabilities found in UPnP libraries used by various daemons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

Xbox has multiplayer gaming capabilities and party chats. You can host or join a multiplayer gaming session or join a party chat. To do that, you need to have an Open NAT type to avoid any issues that ...