Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: Keyloggers are very famous tool which are often used to harvest confidential information.One of the main reasons for this rapid growth of keyloggers is the possibility for programs running in user space to monitor all the keystrokes typed by the users of a system.They are a type of rootkit malware that attempts to retrieve confidential information by covertly capturing user input via keystroke monitoring and then relaying this information to others, often for malicious purposes, it intercepts sensitive information such as usernames, PINs, and passwords.Keyloggers thus pose a major threat to business and personal activities such as Internet transactions, online banking, email, or chat.To deal with such threats, not only must users be made aware of this type of malware, but software practitioners and students must also be educated in the design, implementation, and monitoring of effective defenses against different keylogger attacks.The paper provides an overview of keylogger programs, discusses keylogger design, implementation, and usage, and presents effective approaches to detect and prevent keylogging attacks.Second, the paper outlines several keylogging projects that can be incorporated into an undergraduate computing program to educate the next generation of cybersecurity practitioners on this important topic.
Author: Viraj Prajapati
Language: English
Subfield: Signal Processing
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W3094402305