Subtitles are crucial for videos, especially when they’re inaudible or not in your local language. This is why it’s annoying when subtitles are missing from your videos. VLC Media Player subtitles can ...

VLC Media Player is a popular media player that is available for Windows, Mac, iOS, Apple TV, Android, and other platforms. It also allows users to upload the subtitle file directly to the player and ...

Better watch out where you download your subtitles from: It turns out attackers can infect subtitles with malicious code to exploit vulnerabilities in popular media players and take control of your ...

VLC is an open-source media player program that plays different formats of video and audio files. It’s compatible across gadgets including Windows computers. Users like this app for its features, one ...

Researchers at Check Point have discovered a flaw affecting several popular media players, stemming from how they process subtitles. If exploited, an attacker could gain remote access to the victim’s ...

The number of ways that attackers can infect devices is incredible. One such method that has been around since at least 2003 involves inserting malicious code into the subtitle files used by media ...

If you use a media player that supports third-party subtitles you should probably check to see if there’s an update today. Security researchers at Check point identified a vulnerability that allowed ...

PotPlayer is the rare VLC alternative that actually feels like an upgrade.

Researchers at Check Point Security Labs have uncovered a nasty new hacking technique that takes advantage security deficiencies in several popular media players. The exploit uses phony subtitle files ...

On Tuesday, security research firm Checkpoint announced that its team had discovered a new vulnerability in numerous media players that allows a hacker to take full control of any device when a ...

My favorite DivX playback units are finally biting the dust. I've had this WDTV Play unit sitting on the shelf for at least 3 or 4 years. I set it up three days ago, and began putting it through the ...

Attackers can remotely execute code on targeted systems via specially crafted subtitle files for videos. A proof of concept attack using malicious video subtitle files reveals how adversaries can ...