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Most Home Routers Vulnerable to Flash UPnP Attack

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the oh-this-will-go-well dept.

An Anonymous reader noted that some folks at GNU Citizen have been researching UPNP Vulnerabilities in home routers, and have produced a flash swf file capable of opening open ports into your network simply by visiting an unfortunate URL. Looks like Firefox & Safari users are safe for now.

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  1. comment filtering by howlingmadhowie · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    i know it would be a dangerous precedent, but could it be possible to block all comments which contain the word 'nigger'? it's really been getting out of hand in the last few weeks and is costing a lot of mod points.

  2. Re:Turn off UPNP by KiloByte · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    But with your computer having 1e38 fans noisily buzzing around when you sleep, and guzzling power like American cars guzzle gas, why would you even bother running torrents on your personal machine? It's so much more efficient to do that on the damn router itself.

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