Getting to the ‘root’, what is a keylogger? Well it’s a program or device which records all keystrokes, which could be used overtly for surveillance or covertly for spying. Either way someone is watching!
In today’s society with the advent of technology in all its guises, the ‘keylogger’ is a direct intrusion to all concerned when we use our computers, smartphones or any smart device connected to the Internet.
It’s the scourge of working over the Internet, concealed deviously, yet sophisticated in its execution. Working unseeingly in the background it compiles all your keystrokes and despatches this data to a server unknown to you for the next stage of its mission. And to protect computer from keyloggers, you need to do some solid countermeasures.
Now don’t be misled; as I gestured above, the keylogger doesn’t just focus on computers, it’s interested in any device, where ‘you’ the user interacts with a key board (now think lateral here). So your phone (for example) is also susceptible, there no delineation here, all is fair game! There might be an Android keylogger monitoring keystrokes of your cellphone in the wild, and same goes for iOS and others.
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