Be careful before you fire up media player software to play that foreign-language movie -- it might be a way for intruders to compromise your system. Check Point researchers have discovered an exploit ...

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 ...

Users of popular media players such as Kodi, VLC and Popcorn Time are being urgently warned to update their software after it was discovered that hackers could embed hidden computer viruses in the ...

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 ...

VLC media player is preparing to harness AI to automatically generate subtitles in real-time for videos played on the popular app. At CES, the nonprofit team behind VLC is showing off the upcoming ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I'd like to not have any subtitles by default when watching MKV files in Vista Media Center. When I play a file through Media Player I get the system try icon where I can turn off the subtitles, but I ...