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Keylogging has become 'like Malware for Dummies,' McAfee says


keys Keyloggers, a type of malware that tracks a person's keystrokes through either hardware or software may be one of the lesser-known IT security threats, but, according to a just released McAfee white paper, they are very much on the rise and a booming business for cyber criminals.

The Internet security company recently released “Identity Theft,” a white paper by McAfee Avert Labs' senior virus research engineer Francois Paget, that details how the perpetrators go about obtaining the information. The first key finding relates the fact that, “between January 2004 and May 2006, the number of keyloggers increased by 250 per cent.”

Keyloggers, according to McAfee threat researcher Craig Schmugar, use an application or device to intercept all the keystrokes on a particular machine. It can get on the computer two ways: via software or hardware. (The latter is much less popular, as the cyber-criminal needs physical access to the machine.) IT Business





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