Researchers have found that once malware is on a computer, it can indirectly control a hard-drive (HDD) activity LED, turning it on and off rapidly (thousands of flickers per second) -- a rate that ...

A new hack has been discovered that gathers sensitive information from a desktop computer's tiny blinking LED lights. Researchers have successfully extracted a computer's secrets using a data-stealing ...

If you weren’t concerned about the sight of a drone hovering outside your window peering in at you (and, for the record, you probably should be!), you certainly will when you hear that it could be ...

There's no reason to settle for something as simple as blinking lights when a little bit of hacking can turn basic LED Christmas lights into a rainbow-riffic computer controlled light show. Deep Darc, ...

There’s a small but dedicated group of folks out there who spend all year planning their Christmas decorations. These aren’t simple lawn ornaments or displays, either, but have evolved into complex ...

Hackers may be able to covertly steal sensitive data, including passwords, from isolated computer systems by using the blinking LED lights built into PCs, laptops and servers, research suggests. The ...

DIYer Taylor put together a small circuit inside his computer that monitors his computer's temperatures, and lights up an LED inside his case when it starts getting too hot. While you could always ...