Hardware Keyloggers

Did you know that keyloggers are simplest way to hack an emal password?. Today I'll be you a detailed information on hardware keyloggers and their use. Here I'll give a brief description about keyloggers.

A software keylogger ( or simple keylogger ) is a stealth computer program that captures every keystroke entered through the keybord.

Now I'll tell you what is hardware keylogger and jow it can be used for hacking an email.

Hardware Keyloggers are used for keystroke logging, a method of capturing and recording computer user keystrokes. They plug in between a computer keybord and computer and log all keyboard avtivity to an internal memory. They are designed to work with PS/2 keyboard, and most recently with USB keyboards. A hardware keyloggers appears as simply as a USB pendrive ( thumb drive ) or any computer peripheralso that the victims can never doubt that it is keylogger. So by looking at it's appearence it is not possible to identify it as a keylogger. Here are some of the images of hardware keyloggers for your convenience.



So by looking at above images we can come to know that hardware keyloggers look just like any USB or PS/2 device. So it is hard to identify it as keylogger.

Installing a Hardware Keylogger to Hack the Email Password

The hardware keylogger must be installed between the keyboard plug and the USB or PS/2 port socket. That is you have to just plug in the keylogger to your keyboard's plug ( PS/2 or USB ) and then plug in it to the PC socket. The following Images shows how the keylogger is installed.




Once you install the hardware keylogger as shown in the above two images the keyloggers start recording each and every keystroke of the keyboard including email password and other confidential information. The hardware keylogger has an inbuilt memory in which the logs are stored.