Re: Defeating Keystroke Loggers

[Robin Wood <robin () digininja org>]

On 21 December 2012 15:18, Sandro Gauci <sandro () enablesecurity com> wrote:
> I think that even that can be a problem. For example, the computer's
> BIOS may be compromised [1] or that the hardware itself is compromised
> (hardware keystroke logger) [2].
>
> As other said before, if the system is compromised, then assume that
> anything you do on it can be leaked.
>
> [1] http://www.securelist.com/en/analysis/204792193/MYBIOS_Is_BIOS_infection_a_reality
> and http://www.toucan-system.com/research/blackhat2012_brossard_hardware_backdooring.pdf
>
> [2] This one might be harder to notice
> http://www.keelog.com/hardware_keyboard_logger2.html

That is so tempting to make.

Robin

> On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 9:05 AM, gold flake <ptinstructor () gmail com> wrote:
> > That said, the better and possibly fool proof method would be to boot
> > up from removable media with a locked-down/stripped-down OS, do your
> > business and get off the net.
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