Two mechanical arms control the ball’s spin and tilt, and the keylogger read out the position of those arms. Thus, each character on the Selectric’s type element ball has its own signature.

This is important to remember when we talk about software and hardware keyloggers, but you should know that anything you type on your computer has to be processed inside it, and therefore can be ...

Keyloggers can spy on your keystrokes, but attacks are rare and specific, as they require greater effort from attackers.

Two mechanical arms control the ball’s spin and tilt, and the keylogger read out the position of those arms. Thus, each character on the Selectric’s type element ball has its own signature.

He had distributed hardware keyloggers throughout University computers and used the credential he gleaned from them in order to log-in to the University's core systems. According to the ...