21
Apr
Super-Glue: Best practice for foiling keystroke loggers?
Lessons learned from the Sumitomo Bank Heist in London
Well the story goes that some bank robbers used the device pictured above to gain access to the accounts and transfer funds to themselves…the real brilliance is that the device is a hardware keylogger that simply plugs into the back of the PC, and the keyboard into the back of the device…it then stores all the keystorkes up to 130,000 and requries no extrenal power…the data can be removed in a simple wordprocessing program by typing in a password…so the bank in an attempt to keep something like this from happening again has installed all the keyboards into the back of the PC’s with….wait for it….wait….SUPER GLUE….Welcome to CrzyLand
-Nic
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