A few weeks back after the disastrous distributed denial of service attack on the DNS servers was found to have been caused by insecure Internet of Things devices, Bart suggested that we turn off automatic port forwarding. This is a technology that is built into routers that allows devices (and software) inside your network to […]
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How to Turn Off NAT-PMP on Airport Routers from iOS
Credit to Allister Jenks for the Instructions for iOS Airport routers from Apple have a service turned on by default called NAT-PMP (Network Address Translation Port Mapping Protocol). This service allows applications and/or devices inside your network to automatically open ports in your router to make them accessible from the Internet. While this feature does […]
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