Tag: keylogger
Proof of concept: iPhone captures keystrokes via 'thump phreaking'
Researchers at Georgia Tech have worked up a proof-of-concept demonstration of using an iPhone 4's accelerometer as a keylogger. After setting the iPhone near a computer keyboard, the device's built-in accelerometer and gyroscope were able to decipher entire sentences "with up to 80 percent ...
Backtrack: log everything you type
A while ago we posted on using a keylogger to recover text after a program crash. While that sort of works, it's a very inelegant solution, as the keylogger records, unsurprisingly, each and every keystroke including backspaces and deletes, etc. so getting the text back out often requires quite a ...
logKext keylogger
One my family members seems to lose her work distressingly often, particularly long blog posts she composes in browser windows which then crash. In trying to think up a solution to this problem I hit on the idea of using a keylogger that would record all of her keystrokes, and thus allow me to ...
For those of you worried about security...
There is a little application I mentioned way back in September 2005: MacScan. Does it work? Well I have no idea, because I don't use it, and I've never heard of any particular spyware for the Mac. Yet somehow a new version is out which protects against "all the latest threats." Like that ...
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