50 Million Potentially Vulnerable To UPnP Flaws

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It works, since it sets THEIR FIOS (or DSL) modem into "dummy terminal mode", & then allows YOUR router to take overcontrol duties instead!(Which, odds are, since your firewalling router has more features for security, odds are, including UPnP control, "hardware-side" - then, you can also do this OS-side too, in Windows as wel

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  1. dragosr

    106.0 days ago

    RT @hdmoore: How to disable UPnP on Verizon FiOS routers: (via @slashdot) http://t.co/ji1e4rxq

  2. HD Moore

    106.0 days ago

    How to disable UPnP on Verizon FiOS routers: (via @slashdot) http://t.co/ji1e4rxq



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