We could all use more space on our devices and a bit more fun and flair for said storage. The Seagate FireCuda Gaming Hard Drive combines a massive 2TB of storage with RGB LED lighting, and it’s now ...

I was investigating some low-end laptops and rejected a couple on the principle that for some confounding reason, manufacturers of low-end units have cut out the hard disk and the wireless LEDs(!) One ...

The seemingly harmless blinking lights on servers and desktop PCs may give away secrets if a hacker can hijack them with malware. Researchers in Israel have come up with an innovative hack that turns ...

Custom-made malware installed on an offline computer can use a hard drive's LED to send out sensitive data from infected computers to nearby cameras. This Hollywood hacking scenario is now a reality ...

I have an IWILL KK266 stuck in an Antec SX1030. Though I have two HD's, only one activates the disc activity LED. <P>Primary Master : WD 40 GB HD<BR>Primary Slave : (empty)<BR>Secondary Master: ...

Tinfoil hat wearers who have been putting masking tape on a PC’s cameras might want to put it over their LED lights too. Researchers at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Cyber Security Research ...

Air-gapped computers aren't physically connected to any network and so should be protected from remote hackers. However, Stuxnet showed air-gaps can be breached. Besides that, an insider could always ...

While some netbook makers *cough* *MSI* *cough* seem to feel the need to throw so many status LEDs on their case that it’s tough to tell what any individual blinking light means at a glance, others ...

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 ...

Great for PCs that lack a hard-drive LED, free utility TrayStatus can also display the status of various keyboard keys. Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of reviews, features ...

While installing Windows 8, Ragav RG converted his hard drive to the new GPT partitioning format. He asked about its advantages. Before it can load an operating system, your PC needs a way of know ...