{"id":68420,"date":"2013-01-13T07:54:46","date_gmt":"2013-01-13T05:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=68420"},"modified":"2013-01-14T09:38:35","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T07:38:35","slug":"vlc-media-player-security-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/68420-vlc-media-player-security-problem.html","title":{"rendered":"VLC media player security problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Users of the popular free video player, <a title=\"VLC Media Player\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/497308-VLC-Media-Player\">VLC Media Player<\/a>, should update the programme to plug a security vulnerability that could make it possible for attackers to execute malicious code.<\/p>\n<p>This is the advice of Germany&#8217;s Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) and applies to all versions of the open-source software before the current 2.0.5 version.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Microsoft plugs eleven security holes<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Microsoft\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/211580-Microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> has provided seven software updates in this month&#8217;s patch day.<\/p>\n<p>Users can install the patches to plug eleven security vulnerabilities in <a title=\"Windows\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/360852-Windows\">Windows<\/a> and other Microsoft programmes.<\/p>\n<p>Affected are Windows XP, Vista, 7 and 8 as well as the NET Framework, Sharepoint Server 2007, Office 2003 and 2007 and some Office tools. If the automatic Windows update function is activated, users need take no further action.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More security news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Hacker convicted for iPad data breach\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/65170-hacker-convicted-for-ipad-data-breach.html\">Hacker convicted for iPad data breach<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Unhackable telecom networks a step closer\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/65076-unhackable-telecom-networks-a-step-closer.html\">Unhackable telecom networks a step closer<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Anonymous targets Israeli websites\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/65070-anonymous-targets-israeli-websites.html\">Anonymous targets Israeli websites<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"SA credit cards hacking party revealed\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/64494-sa-credit-cards-hacking-party-revealed.html\"><strong>SA credit cards hacking party revealed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Users of the popular free video player, VLC Media Player, should update the programme to plug a security vulnerability<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":58341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[36,17760,17758,451],"class_list":["post-68420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-active","tag-microsoft-windows-7","tag-vlc-media-player","tag-windows-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68422,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68420\/revisions\/68422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}