What are Keyloggers and how they can HELP you?

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By shailini


Hacking into computer systems has been one of the favorite pastimes in the current generation. And key loggers are extensively used to serve this purpose. These are specialized softwares which can record each and every keystroke make on a computer terminal’s keyboard.

These detected keystrokes can be saved into a local destination within the hard drive itself or can be remotely uploaded to a server especially setup for the purpose. Key loggers can be put into positive as well as negative uses. you can spy on the babysitter whether they are doing their work properly. Some of them can be used to keep tab on the children and teenagers of the family, to verify whether they are visiting adult themed portals.

Key loggers are commonly employed in places of business for the same purpose, to keep on monitoring the activities of the employees. A tab can be kept whether they are idly chatting with their friends, doing online shopping, or visiting prohibited websites. Some of the companies rig their PCs with key loggers so that they can catch the employees who are exchanging the company secrets to rivals. Username and password credentials can be obtained using such key loggers and they can be in turn used to login into email accounts and other web accounts to verify whether the employee is cheating the company.

Mainly two types of key loggers are present. They are hardware based and software based. Hardware based key loggers are affixed to the keyboards of all the employees. Care must be taken to fix them in the absence of the employee or he might get wind of what is happening. The second type of keyloggers is software based. These are the main ones being extensively used today. They can be installed remotely in all the machines. Software key loggers are known to slow down the PCs performance.

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9 months ago

Whatever happened to trust.

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