Can hardware keyloggers be detected? & how? - Super User
2017年3月20日 · Using Additional Devices On The Same USB Port. If you look for keylogger at e.g. Amazon, you'll notice that some won't work if there's an USB hub in the keyboard (and others claim that their product does). So I put a simple USB hub behind the keylogger and plugged the keyboard into the USB hub (i.e. Computer → Keylogger → USB Hub → Keyboard).
How to detect a keylogger in a USB keyboard - Super User
In terms of least-obtrusive ways to capture keystrokes, there are also little USB passthrough devices which plug into the PC's USB and provide a USB port on the other side. The passthrough is invisible to the PC except for slight power draw, and the malcontent can attach and retrieve the device at his convenience. –
Detecting unauthorized USB devices by power draw - Super User
2023年6月10日 · For that, the PC would need to be able to read the data to alert the OP. If you have to crawl behind the PC to check either the multimeter (which you would have to leave connected permanently) or the USB power meter, you can also look at the USB port and see if there's a keylogger between keyboard and PC. –
usb - Are Wireless Keyboard Inherently Insecure? - Super User
To my knowledge, a wireless keyboard more or less just encodes ASCII characters, and then beams them to the little USB dongle via ~2.4GHz RF. Isn't it technically possible to intercept these transmissions if you got close enough to someone [say, the next cubicle over?] with something like this and have essentiallty a wireless keylogger?
In the chromebook era, should I fear keyloggers? - Super User
2015年4月18日 · Further, keyboards can have built-in keyloggers, requiring someone to merely swap out a legit keyboard with an identical-looking on with a built-in keylogger. Upping the complexity a little, a legit keyboard almost always has a single controller chip on it; this chip could relatively easily be replaced, or another chip added to the same ...
How do I detect keystroke loggers in a reliable way?
If a keylogger gets onto a system then a strong firewall policy may detect a keylogger attempting to send data back to its 'owner' over the network but that often assumes an onerous manual involvement in the firewall process (e.g. tuning the system to allow specific applications to use specific IP ports and addresses). Finally, as well as a ...
Will a hardware keylogger work if it is not plugged into a computer?
2016年9月9日 · There's a small chance that a USB-based keyboard might work off one of those portable batteries ("power bricks") made for charging a cellphone, but more likely it will give up after being unable to do the USB handshakes. Meanwhile, for PS/2 keyboards, crafting some custom electronics to power up the keyboard might be much easier. But at that ...
How to be safe plugging in an infected USB? - Super User
I have an infected USB that is loaded with trojans, spywares, Sality, etc. Basically, I wish to put my important data somewhere, reformat the USB, then restore the data. I have prepared a freshly installed operating system that is virus free. It seems like the only way to reformat the USB is to plug it into the PC.
How to store Kleopatra PGP keys on USB drive? - Super User
2011年2月15日 · I'm using Kleopatra (actually gpg4win) on Windows. I've created PGP Private keys, and I would like to store them on my usb stick (e.g. be able to encrypt files only if the private key is available - that is, if the usb stick is in the drive). You …
usb - Storing session data and cookies of portable browsers in …
2023年8月15日 · And when I plugged in my USB drive to use these accounts on that specific website again I was shocked every single account was signed out. I thought all cookies and data from browser sessions of portable browsers store on my USB drive, but as I realized they all were on my computer, only the bodies of these portable Chromes were on my USB drive.