News broke today that the VLC Media Player—immensely popular and Lifehacker-recommended—allegedly has a pretty severe bug that could allow allow a “booby-trapped” video, as The Register put it, to ...

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Researchers discovered that Chinese hackers have been using VLC Media Player to launch cybersecurity attacks. The hacker group, allegedly affiliated with the Chinese government, uses the popular video ...

As per a news story by Bleeping Computer, security researchers discovered that hackers who are reportedly backed by the Chinese government have been using VLC Media Player to launch their cyberattacks ...

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Oh, hey, would you look at that — another article telling you to update something. However, in the case of the VLC Media Player installed on your computer, you really actually should. VideoLAN, the ...

UPDATE (July 24th, 2019) The issue has taken a rather unexpected twist after the vulnerability was disclosed, with VideoLAN dismissing the bug reports and lambasting MITRE in the process. Minutes ago, ...

Why it matters: VLC is universally regarded as one of the best (if not the best) media players available today. A new version released a couple of days ago brings further improvements for the ...

VideoLan has released VLC Media Player 3.0.8 and it is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This release fixed 13 security vulnerabilities as well as providing improvements to video playback.

VLC Media Player is an impressive tool, but it is more than just a video player as some users would have come to understand. You see, this application is capable of allowing users to perform basic ...

The VLC Media Player initially had problems in accomodating with Apple's latest unified processor, the M1 Macs, but has now released a full support version update to work seamlessly and best with the ...