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Identity Fraud Statistics
Around 30 per cent of Britons note down their PIN and passwords.
(More Than UK Survey, July 2008)
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Of the group who are members of social networking sites, only 26% are comfortable giving out personal details.
(Synovate Survey, September 2008)
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Keylogger:A keylogger, keystroke logger, key logger, or system monitor, is a hardware device or small program that monitors each keystroke (and take screenshots too) a user types on a specific computer's keyboard. See online banking for further information.
Keyloggers - online banking:logs the keystrokes of the victim which lets the attacker search for passwords or other sensitive data in the log file. This approach is often used in phishing emails to collect personal information to access a customers online bank account.
Keylogging:The only thing they do is logging the keystrokes of the victim and then letting the attacker search for passwords or other sensitive data in the log file.
Keypad Credit Card:comes with an integrated keypad, requiring you to enter a secret password that provides a temporary one-time use passcode that is meant to authorize a transaction.
Keystroke loggers:A program or hardware device that captures every key pressed on your keyboard
Kid Safe Mail:Child friendly e-mail security software application
Kido (see Conficker or Downadup) worm:creates an HTTP server, resets a machine's System Restore point (making it far harder to recover the infected system) and then downloads files from the hacker's web site.
Koobface:propagates by sending notes to (e.g.Facebook) friends of someone whose computer has been infected.
Kroxxu botnet:differs from traditional botnets, as its expansion has been achieved solely through infected websites.