{"id":108580,"date":"2020-06-12T08:06:15","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T15:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/billions-of-devices-affected-by-upnp-vulnerability"},"modified":"2020-06-14T06:52:14","modified_gmt":"2020-06-14T13:52:14","slug":"billions-of-devices-affected-by-upnp-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/billions-of-devices-affected-by-upnp-vulnerability","title":{"rendered":"Billions of devices affected by UPnP vulnerability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/billions-of-devices-affected-by-upnp-vulnerability2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stop us if you\u2019ve heard this before but a researcher has uncovered a new security vulnerability affecting many devices running the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol.<\/p>\n<p>Named <a href=\"https:\/\/callstranger.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">CallStranger<\/a> by discoverer Yunus \u00c7ad\u0131rc\u0131, the potential for trouble with this flaw looks significant for a whole menu of reasons, starting with the gotcha that it\u2019s UPnP.<\/p>\n<p>UPnP was invented back in the mists of time to graft the idea of plug-and-play onto the knotty world of home networking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stop us if you\u2019ve heard this before but a researcher has uncovered a new security vulnerability affecting many devices running the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol. Named CallStranger by discoverer Yunus \u00c7ad\u0131rc\u0131, the potential for trouble with this flaw looks significant for a whole menu of reasons, starting with the gotcha that it\u2019s UPnP. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108672,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108580\/revisions\/108672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}