NEWS
Wednesday, August 06, 2003
More details are emerging about the graduate student accused of stealing 60 people's UMICH passwords. According to legal documents, he obtained most of the passwords through a physicial keystroke logger - a device that plugs in between a keyboard and computer. He also got passwords: "by creating a bogus log-in screen that appeared to be the official U-M log-in screen, surreptitiously observing computer users while they logged in, and using a computer software program that recorded users' keystrokes." None of the technologies he used were particularly sophisticated.> AANews: "Keystroke logger used to swipe user passwords"
Posted by Rob at 3:52 PM
