Keyloggers are either hardware devices or software which can record the key strokes of a user. Both are legal to own in the US and other countries despite their ability to be used in identity theft and fraud. While software keyloggers are the most common, hardware ones need to be watched out for too. While [...]

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A virtual keyboard provides two main advantages over a hardware keyboard. First, it defeats most keyloggers as the keys are not typed in but clicked on, and second it may offer faster access to special characters, especially from other keyboard layouts. An example would be an English user who needs to write a German ö. [...]

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It is sometimes a good security precaution to avoid using the computer keyboard, especially on public computer systems and other systems that are not under direct control. Keyloggers are still a threat and can transfer every single key that has been entered by the user to a central server. That’s bad if the keys can [...]

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Key Loggers are one of the most dangerous threat that computer users face these days. A key logger can be hardware and software based. It was specifically designed to record key strokes on a computer system. This can be usernames, passwords, credit card information, account data, business secrets and pretty much everything else that is [...]

Categories: Security, Software, Windows

Gernova Keylock is a specialized software to detect keyloggers on a system. Keyloggers are used to log user input which includes urls that the user enters as well as usernames, passwords and even information like credit card data or account numbers. The application is portable and can be run from any location. It’s unfortunately only [...]

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KGB Keylogger offers the user several ways to log user activity on a computer running Windows XP, Windows 2000 or Windows Vista. It can not only be used to log keystrokes but also to make screenshots, record clipboard data, log programs and websites that have been accessed and record general

Categories: Security, Tools

Did you ever experience the loss of a large text that you have written because you did press the wrong button, accidentally closed a window or a program crash ? I did and it really felt terribly to write everything again. I recently read a nice forum discussion about the subject at the Donation Coder blog where the thread starter was asking for a program that would log the text that he was writing to make sure that it would not get lost when something like the above happened.

Categories: Operating Systems, Security, Tools, Windows

Only bad people use keyloggers. This is something that I do hear often and I think that the assumption is not correct. I would agree that keyloggers are mostly used by criminals but not all the time. Keyloggers are a great way to find out which persons are accessing your computers while you are away and what they are doing on your computer.

Categories: Operating Systems, Security, Tools, Windows

This little device has apparently been used to pull of one of the greatest bank heist in history. You attach this device to the keyboard cable at the back of the pc and it´s able to record 130000 keystrokes. The bank robbers installed this device inside the bank and got access to Sumitomo Bank’s wire transfer capability. With all the information at their hand they proceeded to transfer more than 400 million $ to various foreign accounts.

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