Like a year ago the GRC guys at Shields Up! put out a test for routers that had a WAN side UPNP vulnerability, Dlink was one of the ones that failed when using upnp. Dlink put up this page saying they were fixing this - http://www.dlink.com/us/en/technology/upnp
The DIR-857 got this fixed in 1.04, but they never posted it for the DIR-827 which is the same family. Furry can you ask your contacts what happened on this one? Will it be in 1.05 after beta?