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 ...

A yellow, gold or amber blinking light on a computer varies in meaning between systems, but in general, these lights are designed to give clues as to the power and activity states of the computer. Not ...

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 ...