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RSS_BOT Security Flaws in UPnP protocol put 50 million devices at risk - 1llusion - 01-29-2013
Security Flaws in UPnP protocol put 50 million devices at risk
A Security Flaw in Universal Plug & Play (UPnP) are exposing more than 50 millions of computers, printers and storage drives to attack by hackers remotely.
Rapid7 said Tuesday in a research paper, that problem lies in routers and other networking equipment that use a commonly employed standard known as Universal Plug and Play or UPnP.
UPnP allows networked devices to discover each other
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