Keylogging is the art of recording keystrokes . Your account can be taken care of by your friends if you don't take care it by yourself . So according to me Keylogging even involves Social Engineering . It really involves say following scenario happens -
- Your friend ask you to login to your Social Network from his system and what ever you enter is recorded.
- Someone sends you a file and you open it and there is a key logger attached which takes care of all your passwords and stuff .
So all the people who want to protect there Bank Accounts and Social Networks must think of this coming way as what we call as the key to prank the prankster .
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So here is the way you can prevent yourself from keylogged .
Step 1 - Type in OSK is start menu as shown below .
Step 2 - Open on Screen Keyboard .
Step 3 - The thing does not end here . The real tutorial starts here
Say your passwords is Hackbook@2013 . How you are going to type is the real trick .
Type Hack from Keyboard then book from on screen keyboard .
Step 4 -See what really happens is some good key logging software's are really very quick at taking screen shots . So your mouse imprints over on screen key board can easily tracked down . So enter any character in the black space of any site . Say you are logging to facebook so you can write as in the image below .
Step 5 - This indeed can confuse the attacker even so remember next time you doubt any system just apply the following trick .
Caution - Mix these procedures well like On Screen Keyboard ,Keyboard Typing and Blank Space typing in order to be like a real star .
Final words
This method was actually a bit of common sense in combination of experiance and when my little brother tried it on me he finally knew that his elder brother is a little smarter than him .
He said Bhai (This is what he calls me ) how did you do this . And I said Stay Tuned . I am happy that he really reseached for the ways instead of researching and asking me to get some one's password .
Stay tuned ! Stay Aware ! Spread Awareness !