{"id":552,"date":"2017-05-25T03:47:45","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T19:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bleufair.com\/?p=552"},"modified":"2017-05-25T03:47:45","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T19:47:45","slug":"your-keyboard-vs-keyloggers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bleufair.com\/?p=552","title":{"rendered":"Your Keyboard vs keyloggers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>recently, it was revealed that\u00a0that an audio driver installed on several HP laptops contained a feature that secretly recorded every keystroke entered into the computer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/news\/hp-keylogger-debugging-tool-driver-update,34418.html\">http:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/news\/hp-keylogger-debugging-tool-driver-update,34418.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>what about if you are using on screen keyboards or bluetooth keyboards? this is what i discovered on google:<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Wireless keyboards do encrypt their data<\/strong><\/em>, so in theory, the information should be safe, but the quality of the encryption can vary, based on the age of the keyboard and the vendor. In addition, the concept of \u00a0\u201cin\u00a0range\u201d turns out to be much further than most people think, particularly for a thief with equipment dedicated and tuned to this\u00a0purpose.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that your on-screen keyboard actually <em>does<\/em> protect\u00a0you against these two specific types of keyboard-related threats. By\u00a0using the on-screen keyboard, you\u2019re bypassing those components of\u00a0the keyboard hardware that could be compromised.<\/p>\n<p>The bad news is that <em><strong>hardware-based keyloggers are rare.<\/strong><\/em> Much more\u00a0common are software-based threats.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/askleo.com\/will_using_an_on_screen_keyboard_stop_keyboard_loggers_and_hackers\/\">https:\/\/askleo.com\/will_using_an_on_screen_keyboard_stop_keyboard_loggers_and_hackers\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>what you really need to do is get protected with anti-malware software. do note that running anti-virus alone is not good enough. that&#8217;s the way it is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>recently, it was revealed that\u00a0that an audio driver installed on several HP laptops contained a feature that secretly recorded every keystroke entered into the computer. http:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/news\/hp-keylogger-debugging-tool-driver-update,34418.html what about if you are using on screen keyboards or bluetooth keyboards? this is what i discovered on google: Wireless keyboards do encrypt their data, so in theory, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bleufair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bleufair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bleufair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bleufair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bleufair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bleufair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":553,"href":"https:\/\/www.bleufair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions\/553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bleufair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bleufair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bleufair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}