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Defeating Keystroke Loggers
From: Robert Cazares <robertcazares () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 20:48:27 -0800
Defeating Keystroke Loggers I've had some thoughts about defeating keystroke loggers in potentially hostile environments where one may not have a choice if one wants to access password protected accounts. For example any web based email account. Google, Yahoo Mail, etc. Keystroke Loggers - Hardware In my opinion, finding one and removing one is pretty much a no-brainer, on a desktop system that is. Provided of course that you're looking for one. I will admit, that I've never had an opportunity to see one other than in pictures. How about laptops? Considering that any laptop I would carry, in order to carry out a hardware placement would be ridiculously obvious, unless one were to be inserted in an unused PCMCIA slot when I wasn't paying attention. <rhetoric>I know! Who has PCMCIA slots on newer systems anymore. </rhetoric> - Software Laptop or Desktop. The user must somehow be coerced into installing software. Or the system must be logged into somehow to have the software installed. Or perhaps a web drive-by drops malicious software on the system. And even then, something has to be installed VIA an account on the system. Right? OK, regardless of hardware or software types, my question is how to work-around on a compromised system. Going on the premise that I'm on a compromised system, or that my own system is compromised, and I just have no other choice, the immediate manner of dropping my credentials into a Web Browser UI would be to copy and paste. I use PasswordSafe and run it from a thumbdrive. passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/ Considering the fact that there is a logger on the system, my thought about an the ideal method of launching PasswordSafe would be to not have a master password to open, which would not reveal the launching of a password container type application. I can, later on, on a known safe system, re-enable a master password. Kinda sketchy to even have an open password safe type application. The idea is to copy and paste both user name and password into the credential fields. Anyway, this is mostly just food for thought. It's been on my mind for quite some time I got tired of waiting for the right time to post/ask this. :^) You folks always come up with good ideas and then other ideas for things like this. Robert Cazares (206) 650-0478 (mobile) CEH / CSFA / ACE / ASMP Digital Forensic / InfoSec Analyst http://www.linkedin.com/in/robertcazares _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list Pauldotcom () mail pauldotcom com http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
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- Defeating Keystroke Loggers Robert Cazares (Dec 19)
- Re: Defeating Keystroke Loggers allison nixon (Dec 20)
- Re: Defeating Keystroke Loggers Chesmore, Michael [DAS] (Dec 20)
- Re: Defeating Keystroke Loggers gold flake (Dec 21)
- Re: Defeating Keystroke Loggers Sandro Gauci (Dec 21)
- Re: Defeating Keystroke Loggers Robin Wood (Dec 21)
- Re: Defeating Keystroke Loggers Chesmore, Michael [DAS] (Dec 20)
- Re: Defeating Keystroke Loggers allison nixon (Dec 20)
- Re: Defeating Keystroke Loggers Robin Wood (Dec 20)