Currently I am evaluating different UPNP stacks (again). I took a look at Platinum which seems to be a quite fast and solid UPNP stack.

However it seems to be a little bit intollerant against broken schemas. Feel free to take a look on yourself – the patch source code is Ms-PL/LGPL.

PATCH

Terry Walsh from WGS posted that D-Link added CAPTCHA into the web interfaces of their routers to prevent automated attacks agains routers. This should however not increase the resistance against CSRF attacks or intrusions using the router’s shell (Telnet/SSH) like used by the latest worm/bot network.

ARTICLE

Some of you might have wondered what I have been up to lately. I am happy to tell you the results of the hard work we did in the last weeks together with our colleagues from home-server-blog.de and WeGotServed.co.uk: Offical annoucenments in German (HSB) and English (WGS).

UPDATE: The Microsoft’s WHS team wrote a post about the AIC09 on the offical WHS team blog.

UPDATE2: The prize list is now officially announced in German (HSB) and English (WGS).

UPDATE3: The AIC09 is now closed and we will review the nearly 200 submissions to select the 30 most promising.

UPDATE4: The AIC09 finalists are now published: 1.-10. in German (HSB) and English (WGS); 11.-30. in German (HSB) and English (WGS). Voting will start tomorrow!

UPDATE5: Voting has started in German (HSB) and English (WGS)!