{"id":108596,"date":"2020-06-12T16:03:16","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T23:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/plug-and-play-bug-exposes-millions-of-network-devices"},"modified":"2020-06-14T06:42:07","modified_gmt":"2020-06-14T13:42:07","slug":"plug-and-play-bug-exposes-millions-of-network-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/plug-and-play-bug-exposes-millions-of-network-devices","title":{"rendered":"Plug-and-play bug exposes millions of network devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/plug-and-play-bug-exposes-millions-of-network-devices2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A bug in a protocol used by virtually all Internet of Things devices exposes millions of users to potential attack, a researcher reported Monday. The fault centers on the Universal Plug and Play protocol, a 12-year-old implementation that simplifies connections among network devices such as computers, printers, mobile devices and Wi-Fi access points.<\/p>\n<p>Billions of devices are theoretically vulnerable, the report stated, but only those with UPnP activated currently face risk of attack.<\/p>\n<p>Turkish security engineer Yunus \u00c7adirci uncovered the UPnP bug, named CallStranger, that could be exploited to gain access to any smart <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/device\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">device<\/a> such as <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/security+cameras\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">security cameras<\/a>, printers and routers that are connected to the Internet. Once access is gained, malicious code can be sent through network firewalls and other security defenses and reach internal data banks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bug in a protocol used by virtually all Internet of Things devices exposes millions of users to potential attack, a researcher reported Monday. The fault centers on the Universal Plug and Play protocol, a 12-year-old implementation that simplifies connections among network devices such as computers, printers, mobile devices and Wi-Fi access points. Billions of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,45,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-finance","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108596","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108668,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108596\/revisions\/108668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}