Basics of Hacking-KEYLOGGERS

Posted by Kuldeep Khatri on 21:33

Hii Friends....I hope you all are fine after my previous post on Basics of hacking - Phishing and I hope that was really helpful to you. Well, Today am back with a new Basic of hacking that is KEYLOGGERS. That is again a method of hacking and this method is also preferable one like that of Phishing. Well, this method is much easier then Phishing.

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What are Keyloggers?

A Keylogger is also called a Keystroke logger is an Hardware device or a small Program which monitors the action and the every keystrokes typed on a particular keyboard. Well, Keyloggers runs in the background of the computer and is not listed in the task Manager or anywhere in the computer as the victim cannot identify that the Keylogger is installed in his computer or not.
Well, People use to prefer the software Keylogger as these software Keylogger saves these Keystrokes in a file and send it to the owner of the program. They may send it to the owner of the program via E-mail.These Keyloggers can be used at offices to spy any of the Employees of a company or at home to spy the children. Keyloggers are easy to install and takes few seconds to install. And although Hardware Keyloggers are plugged in the computer like the pen drive to save any sensitive information, so hardware Keyloggers are much risky to use as they can be seen.

Why are Keyloggers Harmful?

They can cause a lot of harms to you in the following ways:-
If software Keyloggers are installed in your Computer then it may record your sensitive information like username and Password.
For example:- You may open www.facebook.com and you have a Keylogger installed in your Computer then if you enter your username and password then Keylogger will easily save it and your Password will be hacked by the one who has installed that Keylogger in your Computer.

Some Images of Keyloggers!!

HARDWARE KEYLOGGER

SOFTWARE KEYLOGGER

I will soon post a article on Software Keylogger which is used to capture sensitive information.Well, I hope my article was useful for you!!!!
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