Thursday, July 12, 2012

Even you can cheat the Nasty Keylogger : A Simple Trick.

Keylogger also known as Keystroke logger are nasty little spyware tools which records your keystrokes without being known to you in real time. Keyloggers are normally IT organizations to troubleshoot technical problems with computers and business networks. But some people use it to steal your passwords, credit card numbers, etc. which is a huge security issue. Detecting a keylogger on a computer is difficult. If you suspect that your computer have a keylogger then you can scan it with a anti-keylogger tool such Super Anti Spyware or Malwarebytes. But what when you are on your friend's computer or in a cyber. You never know what that computer would have and you can't really scan that computer with any anti spyware without their permission unless you do it when no one is watching you :p but I suppose that won't be an ethical idea though. So what will you do now? Here we give a simple trick to cheat those extra smart keyloggers.



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Disadvantage:
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The main disadvantage of a keylogger is that it can only record keystrokes in the order they have been pressed but cannot monitor mouse cursor movements. This is loophole with which we can cheat with or mislead a keylogger; but how? Let me explain that with some examples:

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Example 1
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Suppose your password is "123456". Now instead of typing your exact password type just say "45". Here the keylogger will record "45". Now place the cursor with your mouse before "4" and type your remaining characters that is "123" and similarly place the cursor after "5" and type your remaining character "6". We will get the password as "123456" but the keylogger will record it as "45", "123", "6".


So actually the keylogger say that the password is "451236" which is absolutely wrong. Some keyloggers not even record that. They just show you "45", "123" & "6" as three different entries instead of a combined one.



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Example 2
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In this example instead of placing the cursor back and front, select the characters with your mouse. Like type "123786" and then select "78" with mouse and type "45". You will get "123456" but the keylogger will log "12378645" or "123786" and "45" as two different entries.






So now be cautious while logging into some other PC or desktop .....Just use your imagination by inserting, highlighting, substituting to make things more complex for those nasty keyloggers.

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