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Kodi boxes and media players pose a security threat

Posted on 21 July 2017

Media players are popular devices among the student population. Checkpoint have issued a warning as many of these devices have vulnerabilities that can be exploited through carefully crafted subtitle files.

Article available from helpnetsecurity.

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