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CVE-2018-4013: MPlayer and VLC Both Affected by a Critical Vulnerability

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A security researcher has announced the discovery of a critical vulnerability in two of the most popular media players — MPlayer and VLC. The issue was found in the LIVE555 media streaming library which is used in both applications and…Read mor… Continue reading CVE-2018-4013: MPlayer and VLC Both Affected by a Critical Vulnerability→

Watch out: MPlayer and VLC media player hit by critical vulnerability

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By Waqas
The IT security researcher at Cisco Talos Intelligence Group has discovered a critical remote code execution vulnerability in the LIVE555 media streaming library used by popular media players such as VLC and MPlayer. Maintained by the company … Continue reading Watch out: MPlayer and VLC media player hit by critical vulnerability→

Optimizing Screen Time To Heart Beats

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Kids spend too much time in front of a screen these days. They also won’t get off my lawn, and music today is just a bunch of static. They don’t respect their elders, either. While kids today are terrible, we can fix that first problem — sitting in front of a screen all day. For his Hackaday Prize entry, [Donovan] has created a device that optimizes screen time to reduce sensory overload. It’s the Optimote, the combination of a remote control and biofeedback.

The idea behind the Optimote is to actually to reduce stimulation when watching something on a screen. …read more

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Hacked by Subtitles

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CheckPoint researchers published in the company blog a warning about a vulnerability affecting several video players. They found that VLC, Kodi (XBMC), Popcorn-Time and strem.io are all vulnerable to attack via malicious subtitle files. By carefully crafting a subtitles file they claim to have managed to take complete control over any type of device using the affected players when they try to load a video and the respective subtitles.

According to the researchers, things look pretty grim:

We estimate there are approximately 200 million video players and streamers that currently run the vulnerable software, making this one of the most

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Hackers have found a way to hijack your system through subtitles

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By Jahanzaib Hassan

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd has revealed that its researchers have found a major attacking method in which hackers use vulnerabilities in media players which automatically download subtitles for various movies. As such, some of the most well-known media players such as Kodi, VLC and Popcorn Time have been compromised as these players are configured […]

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Hackaday Prize Entry: Cheap Visible Light Communication

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[Jovan] is very excited about the possibilities presented by Visible Light Communication, or VLC. It’s exciting and new. His opening paragraphs is filled with so many networking acronyms that VLC could be used for, our browser search history now looks like we’re trying to learn english without any vowels.

In lots of ways he has good reason to be excited. We all know that IR can communicate quite a bit, but when you’re clever about frequency and color and throw in some polarizers with a mix of clever algorithms for good measure you can get some very high bandwidth communication …read more

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