What is a Keylogger and Key Logging Software?

What Is a Keylogger and Key Logging Software?

A keylogger is a hardware device or a software program that records the real time activity of a computer user including the keyboard keys they press.

Use Cases for a Keylogger

Keyloggers are used in Information Technology (IT) organizations to troubleshoot technical problems with computers and business networks. Keyloggers can also be used by a family (or business) to monitor the network usage of people without their direct knowledge; they are sometimes used as part of home parental controls.

What Information a Keylogger Can Collect

• capture any passwords entered by users on the device
• take screen captures of the device at periodic intervals
• record the URLs that were visited via Web browsers, and possibly also take -screen
• captures of the Web pages viewed
• record a list of the applications run by users on the device
• capture logs of all instant messaging (IM) sessions
• capture copies of sent emails
• automatically send the reports containing stored logs and emails to a remote
• location (by email, FTP or HTTP).

Where Keyloggers Come From and How to Determine if Your Device Has One?

• being installed in hidden directories (folders) on the target system
• cleverly disguising or hiding the application from the operating system task list (Windows Task Manager and Start screens, Mac OS Activity Monitor, and equivalent)

How to secure?

An anti-keylogger (or anti–keystroke logger) is a type of software specifically designed for the detection of keystroke logger software; often, such software will also incorporate the ability to delete or at least immobilize hidden keystroke logger software on a computer.

courtesy: https://www.lifewire.com/definition-of-keylogger-817998

Wordpress Blog: https://lnkd.in/gvpTsXg
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aywenzit/