Security News > 2018 > November > Here's another 45,000 reasons to patch Windows systems against old NSA exploits
2018-11-30 01:58
It's 2018 and UPnP is still opening up networks - this time to leaked SMB cyber-weapons Earlier this year, Akamai warned that vulnerabilities in universal plug-and-play (UPnP) had been exploited by scumbags to hijack 65,000 home routers. Now, in follow-up research released his week, it found little has changed.…
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