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Keyloggers Could Be Installed in Keyboards!

All "thanks" to Microsoft keyboard

By Alexandru Dumitru, Security News Editor

10th of September 2007, 13:32 GMT

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Would you look at that? Spyware has just cranked it up a notch! Now you don't need to have an Internet connection to get your data phished. Spyware can be inserted directly into the keyboard. So for those
of you that yanked out the network cable when they felt hackers attacked, this keyboard just renders that action useless. The news here isn't the fact that this keyboard appeared, as it is one of a kind and you can only buy it from Spywarehouse, but rather the fact that spyware can be inserted into a keyboard. So who knows what yours has inside it? I'm a bit tech-savvy myself, but I really can't tell if my keyboard had a keylogger enabled, even if I opened it and tore it to pieces.

I think this is a pretty efficient spy tool, as it has 2MB of storage. This might not seem enough, but it can store about 2 million characters, which means several days of typing, for a common human being. And I said 'common', because, I think that I will make it record half a million characters in a few hours of gaming. It's not that I play weird games, it's just that I panic a lot, and not only do I run around like crazy, always having the forward button pressed, but I also hit some keys by accident. So, I guess that its efficiency varies from person to person.

The keyboard is a Microsoft one and the keylogger is stupid-proof. It is installed within the device and it is activated by default so that you don't have to stress yourself too much. Also, to get a screen-printed record of what keys have been pushed, all you have to do is open a text editing document and just write the keylogger password. In any case, the one sold online comes with full instructions. Also, no security software will detect the program since it's built-in.

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