A flaw in the widely used open source VLC media player could allow an attacker to execute harmful code on a PC. The problem stems from a buffer overflow that can occur when the player processes ...

While tech giants kept building bloated media apps, a scrappy open-source project called VideoLan quietly ate their lunch by ...

VLC is one of the best platforms around for watching videos or listening to music on your computer or over a stream. The open-source platform makes users' lives easy to play back any file type. What's ...

Windows only: While many media players happily play subtitles that are separate from a video, you can still embed subtitles directly into a ripped or downloaded movie file with free utility DivXLand ...

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 ...

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 ...

Google Play's crazy automated app review process strikes again. This time, the puritan robot overlords that run the Play Store briefly decided that listing support for common subtitle files is enough ...

Security advisory warns that attackers could use a buffer overflow flaw in VLC to execute malicious code in a subtitle file and tamper with a PC A flaw in the widely used open source VLC media player ...